Center for Women & Gender Studies Presents a night of short films from independent women filmmakers addressing global issues of women and technology
Carol Petrucci
Center for Women & Gender Studies
Presents a night of short films from independent women filmmakers
addressing global issues of women and technology as part of the CWGS
Gender & Technology Film Series.
Tuesday, OCT 30th
6:30pm Calhoun theater (CAL 100)
This event is free and open to the public. Films will be followed by a
discussion lead by UT Scholars. For map and more information see our
webiste: http://utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs
Nalini By Day, Nancy by Night
A film by Sonali Gulati, 27 minutes
This insightful documentary explores complex issues of globalization,
capitalism and identity. Gulati, an Indian immigrant living in the US,
explores the ramifications of outsourcing telephone service jobs to
India through a witty and personal journey into India’s call centers.
Performing the Border
A film by Ursula Biemann, 42 minutes
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez,
where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic equipment
just across from El Paso, Texas. This experimental work explores the
sexualization of the border region through labor division,
prostitution, and sexual violence in the public sphere.
Writing Desire
A film by Ursula Biemann
23 minutes
Although under-age 'pen pals' and mail-order brides have always been
part of the transnational exchange of sex in the marketplace of desire,
the Internet has accelerated these transactions. Biemann simulates the
gaze of the Internet shopper looking for the imagined docile,
traditional, pre-feminist, but Web-savvy mate.