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>>> 24-03-2007
| JENNIFER FOX PRESS CONFERENCE |
JENNIFER FOX PRESS CONFERENCE
Jennifer Fox, a great personality in American independent documentary film, gave a press conference on Thursday, March 22, in the context of the 9th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, and discussed her thoughts about the position of women in the modern world. “Women tend to speak in a particularly emotional way about the things that concern them, and continuously. You could come back in a year and still find that they are talking about the same thing. But this is a therapeutic process for most of them”, she declared, and continued by saying that the biggest joy of making a documentary in opposition to making a fiction film is that you can lose control more easily. “My film is not autobiographical, but it has to do with my connection to other people, and more specifically how I am affected by the fact that I was born a woman. Of course there is an ethical issue since all my friends, my family and my partner all took part – not so much because they wanted to, but because of their love for me – however, this is one of the film’s risks. As you can see, I have done my own bit of psychotherapy, I grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s after all”, she joked.
According to Jennifer Fox, the most important burden borne by a woman is that she has to work and raise children, and have an underlying fear that she could be a victim of abuse at any given moment: “ We all know that, let’s say, when we go out on the street at night we are at risk of being hurt or raped. This influences women more than one would think”.
And what is her opinion on the female prototype presented through television series like Sex and the City? ĢI didn’t like Sex and the City because the leading characters were looking for happiness through men. What I am trying to do is determine my place in the world as a woman who isn’t looking to complete herself through children, marriage and family. On the contrary, I believe that her sexuality is what determines a woman. If a woman can freely seek pleasure, if her sexuality is not being controlled by anyone, then she is truly free”, she stressed.
Answering a question regarding her reference to female sexuality in her documentary, Fox said that in some ways it helps, but in others it doesn’t: “ On the one hand it attracts some people’s attention, but on the other hand it couldn’t be broadcast on some stations, or be financed by such a puritanical society as American society is. It is no accident that our main financier is Danish Film Institute, who shares our artistic concerns”.
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