Gender Equity in Media Society presents their 19th annual international film festival, GEMFest in Vancouver in person 5-9March2024 and virtually 12-16March2024 with 14 Canadian films. The festival, now in its 19th year, continues to provide a platform for challenging gender imbalance and the lack of equity and diversity in the screen-based media industry.
In a German short, “Pissing on Patriarchy”, Marie is zipping along the Autobahn desperately seeking a service station to empty her bladder. Man, women and dog experience this sensation. Marie pulls into the service station and the bathrooms are closed due to a pipe burst.
Nothing but men are in and about the service station and reality and fantasy commingle with absurdity (or feminist paranoia). Poor Marie has fantasies of relieving herself in diverse places all frustrated by leering and suspicious men. Combining these images with fantasies of a proper urinating spot she graduates to Richard Speck and Charles Whitman intentionality’s. Nice to be in an equal gender situation. Yes women and men can equally be psychopaths. Marie as Tarantino in “From Dusk until Dawn”?
This short is initially humorous but after 3 more views it is more chilling than chuckly. A connection with “Run Lola Run” is evident in the cinematography.
A wonderful job here of Caroline Hellwig as Marie as a frustrated, flippant and deadly Millennial. As for a comment on feminism reaching the lowest wrung somehow is this a celebration of “equality”? Are we at the Titty Twister in Tarantino’s “From Dusk Until Dawn”.
This German short is showing in Vancouver in person 5-9March2024 and virtually 12-26March2024. There will be 14 Canadian films of which 6 are from British Columbia.
RKS 2024 Film Rating 93/100.
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