Gender, Marriage, and Depression in the Animated Stories of Latvian Women

CREECA Lecture Series Podcast

English - December 10, 2021 17:55 - 49 minutes - 45 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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Signe Baumane (Latvian-born animator, artist, and film maker) discusses her animated films, particularly 'Rocks in my Pockets' (2014), a film about five Latvian women throughout the twentieth century, which focuses on topics of depression, suicide, marriage, and gender roles in Soviet-occupied and post-Soviet Latvia. Baumane also offers a glance at her work-in-progress animated feature film 'My Love Affair With Marriage,' a fresh look on gender and romantic love, to be released in 2022.
[Audio from 'My Love Affair With Marriage' has been removed from this podcast episode, as the film is currently unreleased.]