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The SEFF’17 Opening Ceremony

19.10.2017, Thursday, 17:30
Studio TVP3 Szczecin, Niedziałkowskiego 24a (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: SEFF'17 Opening Ceremony

take a look: „Unity: Dress-Scapes of Accra”

The Szczecin European Film Festival Opening Ceremony will traditionally be taking place at the TVP3 Szczecin studio. The programme includes a meeting with the Jury members and the European Competition participants, and a Polish première screening of Mara Lin Visser’s famous ethnographical film “Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra,” about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. The screening will be accompanied by a meeting with the author.

The Partner of the Opening Ceremony is Szczecińska Energetyka Cieplna, West Pomerania's leading distributor of heat and electrical power vendor. Together with heating companies from Barlinek, Dębno, Łobez, Myślibórz, Połczyn-Zdrój, Słubice and Strzelce Krajeńskie, they create the SEC group.

Invitations

Films

Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra, NL/GH, 2016, 37'7''
An ethnographic film about African fashion in the capital of Ghana. The comeback of African print seems to be emerging in the fashion system of Accra. By following Allan, a fashion designer and his wife Cynthia, this mosaic film shows the great diversity of tailor-made fashion and hybrid styles; the ways in which African wear is used and the expression of culture through wardrobe. The process of sowing a dress shows the marriage of both fabric & design, tradition & creativity and husband & wife.

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Authors:
- Mara Lin Visser

Associated artists

Mara Lin Visser
Visual anthropologist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Throughout her BA in media & culture she became interested in film and how the media affects people. She discovered filmmaking during her MA in Visual Anthropology as a natural way of expressing herself. At the moment she is doing different academic and cultural projects using audiovisual methods.

Filmography:
HOME (2017)
Say cheese, Say sexy (2017)
The Railway bar (2017)
Unity: Dress-scapes of Accra (2016)
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