Work Package 4
WP4 –Teaching Feminism through Filmmaking
In partnership with secondary school teachers at Collège Costa-Gavras, Le Mans, FEMME will develop a program of filmmaking where teens learn to express the experience of growing up in the suburb through short fictional films (3 to 5 minutes long). Filmmaker Bouchera Azzouz will provide artistic and scientific training (through a master class and regular interactions with the pupils) to frame the topic as a feminist endeavor.
A workshop with Mary Harrod will be organized to introduce the video essay as a new form of academic reflection and pedagogical practice. University students (mainly aged 18-22) in Le Mans, Toulouse and Exeter will make critical video essays to respond to films and TV series from diverse locations. They will be encouraged through dialogue to reflect upon the representations of gender in this media, prompting pioneering exchange and reflection between French and UK-based students.
The findings of WP1-2-3-4 will feed into a five-minute script co-written by B. Azzouz and the partners of the other WPs during a script writing workshop, with an aim to promote gender inequality awareness. The film directed by B. Azzouz will be made accessible on several platforms to increase the impact of FEMME.
Collaborative script-writing sessions will be organized to devise filmmaking practices that can be part of a challenge to prevailing forms of gender inequality. The films will articulate underrepresented perspectives on gender and respond to the situations identified in WP1-2-3. WP4 will question how feminist-inspired films can empower audiences.
WP4 Delphine Letort