Women’s and Gender Studies in collaboration with Sexual Assault Awareness Week @ MIT present,
THE LINE
SEX. POWER. CONSENT. PLEASURE.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
7PM
6-120
A young woman is raped when a one-night stand far from home goes terribly wrong. In the aftermath, as she struggles to make sense of what happened, she decides to make a film about the relationship between her own experience and the tangle of political, legal, and cultural questions that surround issues of sex and consent. Using a hidden camera, filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman goes head-to-head with the man who assaulted her, recording their conversation in an attempt to move through the trauma of her experience and achieve a better understanding of the sometimes ambiguous line between consent and coercion. The result is a powerful documentary about the terrible personal reality of rape and sexual violence — and the more complicated and ambivalent ways sexual assault is often framed and understood in the wider culture.
Film duration: 24 minutes
Discussion with director Nancy Schwartzman to follow
*Film will be screened with English subtitles*
*ASL interpreters will be present*
*Wheel chair accessibility available through the Infinite Corridor in building 8 or through the ramp at building 14.*
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