BALKAN DOX
Stuntwomen
Cascadeuses
Producers
Agnieszka Ramu
Cécile Lestrade
Élise Hug
Marie-Lou Pahud
Ursula Meier
Cinematographers
Augustin Losserand
Editors
Myriam Rachmuth
Sound
Etienne Curchod
Official Film Website
Contact
Andana Films
25, route de l'Echelette
France – Lussas
[email protected]
www.andanafilms.com
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2022
Switzerland
84 min
Color
STUNTWOMEN portrays three women stunts in changing times and offers a look at how relationships of power and hierarchy between genders are anchored in bodies and shape them in the world of cinema.
The #metoo movement initiated in Hollywood in 2017 offers a new momentum to the denunciations of sexist relations specific to the film industry. However, the cinematographic representations of women are too entrenched to change quickly: women’s roles in action cinema are mostly victims. The camera focuses on cuts, sexual mutilation, blood, crying. But who carries the weight of this exalted violence ? Behind the characters on the screen, who is the physical person who jumps under a car to escape a killer?
The #metoo movement initiated in Hollywood in 2017 offers a new momentum to the denunciations of sexist relations specific to the film industry. However, the cinematographic representations of women are too entrenched to change quickly: women’s roles in action cinema are mostly victims. The camera focuses on cuts, sexual mutilation, blood, crying. But who carries the weight of this exalted violence ? Behind the characters on the screen, who is the physical person who jumps under a car to escape a killer?
Director
Born in 1987, Elena Avdija graduated in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris. After a master's degree in documentary filmmaking at the INA, she worked as an assistant director, developing scripts for historical documentaries, notably for Point du Jour and Arte in Paris. Upon her return to Switzerland, she specialized in casting extras and small roles for series and feature films. This part of her work highlights her interest in the professions that evolve in the shadow of the film industry.
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