From Where They Stood

This year’s Tricky Women Tricky Realities Artist Talk brings together selected animated works featured in the festival program that all negotiate “terms of proximity” as in exploring proximity and distance in relation to (auto)biographical experiences and stories. The featured filmmakers center narrative and visual strategies that approach the fine line between the private and public from a feminist standpoint.

By doing so, personal experience is approached not only as a basis for narrative or visual storytelling, but also as something that is emotionally affected by what 46 is close: memories, bodies, body parts, community, kin.

By exploring both the film’s (auto-)biographical aspects and the experiences of the filmmakers engaging with them, questions arise: What “terms of proximity” exist in (auto-)biographical or autofictional storytelling? How is closeness and distance negotiated when it comes to biographical or autobiographical stories? Under what circumstances can intimate spaces, memories and testimonies be translated into public spheres? What is the potential of animation to hold space for the personal, the private, the intimate – the "unfolded" person?