THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "Eve’s Ribs Lilith’s Lungs” (March 14-20)
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Eve’s Ribs Lilith’s Lungs
Description
An experimental cinepoem, Eve’s Ribs Lilith’s Lungs viscerally offers a woman’s journey from traumatized entrapment in the patriarchal ribcage of Eve’s assigned image, to release, rebirth and rediscovery of her own image in the joy of Lilith’s lungs. The work itself has lived multiple lives beginning with straight text on the page, text performing as shaped ribs on the page, live performance voiced in spoken word, vocalized sound, instrumental music, visual art (painting), gesture and full body movement. Each was solo up until the live performance in which a painter, composer and sound designer collaborated. This latest and final iteration combines all learning into a short film, collaborating with Mexican filmmaker Roberto Campos Segura and an international cohort of women who brought their own visual interpretations to the text. Originating in 2021, it remains particularly relevant.
Runtime: 13 minutes, 52 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation
Director Biography - Judy Lea Steele & Roberto Campos Segura
Steele is an interdisciplinary writer, performer and producer. Her theatrical career spans stage, film, commercials and VO. An emerging writer and performance artist, “Eve’s Ribs Lilith’s Lungs” is her first cinepoem. Judy’s experimental plays, poems and performance art have been shared, recognized and published in Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York, among them the Eugene O’Neill National Play Conference, Trampoline Poetry, WRPN Women’s International Film Festival and as a Patty Friedmann Writing Competition poetry award winner. Her experimental poetry is dual and dichotomous in voice, exploring expressions of self-ventriloquism and feminism using shape and multimedia tools appropriate to the work. Its multiple lives span page, live performance and cinepoetry. In each, the text speaks in multiple voices spanning spoken word, gesture and movement, instrumentals, and vocalization. Through her non-profit, Wisteria Root Productions, she works with ongoing collaborators and project specific artists to create larger multi-media art and performance events amplifying women’s voices, often over 50. Judy is also a member of the Chicago based Ernestine performance collective, a founding member of the Burnished Collective theatre salon and a member of both Honor Roll and the Dramatists Guild. A recent interdisciplinary MFAW alumna of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, she did her undergraduate work at Northwestern University.
Roberto Campos Segura is a young filmmaker based in Mexico City with a bachelor’s degree in Filmmaking (Facultad de Cine, 2019-2023) and over 8 years of experience directing, writing, and producing more than 10 short films and various audiovisual projects alongside a wide range of international artists. His cinematic journey began at the age of 16 and has grown in the world of science fiction with short films like Exchange (2019), Skewb (2020), The Perfect Date (2023), and Being Human (Premiering 2024). His passion for telling cutting-edge stories on the big screen through his production company FIELDS PRODUCTIONS, along with his successful collaborations in the audiovisual field, has earned him awards from various film festivals around the world including Mexico, Germany, Italy and France.
Credits & Specifications:
Judy Lea Steele (Writer)
Wisteria Root Productions, Inc. (Producer)
Roberto Campos Segura (Filmmaker)
Completion Date: September 24, 2024
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Film Color: Color
