Screening
They have a name for girls like me
27 Jan 2017 – 28 Jan 2017
Event times
11:00am - 6:00pm
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 929 NW Flanders St
- Portland
Oregon - 97209
- United States
Travel Information
- one block from the NW 10th and NW Glisan streetcar stop
Using excerpted material from nearly 40 films spanning cultures and decades, “They have a name for girls like me” is an ongoing, experimental video by moving-image artist Julie Perini.
About
They have a name for girls like me uses excerpts from nearly 40 films spanning many cultures and decades, all with characters named “Julie.” Each time Perini presents the work, she adds more material, cutting the films down to every time the name is spoken. The video explores the history of representation of women in cinema, notions of gender as performance, ideas about cinematic identification and offers a cross-section of global fiction narrative filmmaking.
In this new version, Perini re-edited the entire project to include more filmic material around every utterance of the name, in an exhausting search for an archetypal “Julie.” The screening includes exhibition of several digital prints, titled Flattened Videos, which are composed from film stills of works sampled in They have a name for girls like me.
Upfor presented an earlier version of this video in the group exhibition Self(ie) Portraits in February 2014.
