"Seek Body Contour" is screening in the Saturday 12, 2024 1:30 pm Program

In-person

Online version

Description:

Seek Body Contour is a movement and poetry short film, exploring trauma, healing, and reconnection through the body. The film is told through the composition of vignettes and is inspired by somatic dance practice. It is deeply concerned with how womxn of color navigate social and cultural surveillance, male validation, and a myriad of other standards and demands. The contours mentioned in the title refer to the lines that map the experiences and emotions for how womxn live in their bodies. All of the womxn who participated in the creation of the film (currently living in South Korea as foreigners) have contributed to sharing how they disturb, complicate, excite, and add weight to gendered spaces.

Credits:

Marcia Benedicta Peschke

Director

Marcia Benedicta Peschke

Writer

Simone Govender

Writer

Hannah Esther Janko- Barrios

Writer

FLOW

Boipelo Seswane

Writer

Marcia Benedicta Peschke

Producer

Simone Govender

Key Cast

Hannah Esther Janko- Barrios

Key Cast

Boipelo Seswane

Key Cast

Rainmaker

DOP, Camera work, and Editor

Director Biography - Marcia Benedicta Peschke

Marcia Peschke is a writer, educator, director and movement artist whose work interacts with themes including identity, representation, and womxnhood. Her creative practice allows for collaborative exchange, and is multidisciplinary, dabbling in poetry, circus arts, and dance. She has created work primarily for live performance. Marcia’s poetry has appeared in publications by the Los Angeles Poet Society Press, and Chasing Dreams Publishing. She has written and conceptualized performances focused on community engagement and embodied movement. Marcia has performed in and created work for the Red Eye Arts Festival, Project C Art Party at Rebel, Rebel Live Action: Eco Art Festival, Big Day South, and the National Arts Festival (Makhanda). Seek Body Contour is Marcia’s first project in filmmaking.

Director Statement

Seek Body Contour is a visual exploration of revisiting, and healing the rejected parts of ourselves. The movement interactions and performances create the experience of WOC (womxn of colour) through self-narrative texts and movement. While leading this project, I was engaged in my own healing and in how I have actively sought out ways to advocate for myself as a WOC. I worked with three other WOC, who like myself, are living in a foreign country (South Korea). Attempting to root oneself on foreign soil includes the experience of imagining and reimagining our identities. Seek Body Contour observes how the body remembers and stores traces of emotions and memories. This film explores how the body can be a space of liberation and safety.