11 September: Open screening Bete and Deise by Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Published on Thursday, 09 September 2021 13:44

Wendelien van Oldenborgh Bete and Deise 3

Film still from Bete and Deise

 
Sensible Grounds: Tuning Into the Rhythms of the Chronic
 
Screening programme
 
Saturday, 11 September, 8pm, screening of “Bete and Deise” (2012) by Wendelien van Oldenborgh. The screening is part of the exhibition Sensible Grounds: Tuning Into the Rhythms of the Chronic, curated by Azar Mahmoudian which ends on 12 September. This is the third and last screening of the programme.
 
The film screening is free of charge with subtitles in both English and Lithuanian.
 
Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo str. 3, Nida, Lithuania, LT-93127
 
Short description of the film:
 
The film stages an encounter between two women in Rio de Janeiro: Bete Mendes and Deise Tigrona. These women have – each in their own way – given meaning to the idea of a public voice. Since the 1960s, Mendes has maintained a political career alongside her acting career in popular television. Mendes was involved in the armed resistance group of the student movement against the dictatorship, and was part of the labour movement in the 1970s, co-founding the Partido dos Trabalhadores, the workers’ party that has given rise to Brazil’s former presidents, Lula de Silva and Dilma Rousseff. Tigrona, for her part, is one of the most powerful female voices in the Funk Carioca movement. Growing up and performing as a singer in the impoverished community of Cidade de Deus, she rose to great international popularity when her song ‘Injeção’ was used as the basis for M.I.A.’s popular hit ‘Bucky Done Gun’. She was forced to take a step back when it became too burdensome to combine her music career with her tough family life in Cidade de Deus. However, more recently she has made a strong comeback.
 
Together these women talk about their experiences with performance and their position in the public sphere, allowing for the contradictions that they each carry within themselves to surface.
 
The programme at NAC is part of the project 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, a European Cooperation project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the EU and the Lithuanian Council for Culture.