This is how a child becomes a poet: film screening and conversation with Céline Sciamma

In June 2022 on the summer solstice, the poet Patrizia Cavalli died. This is the last day and night of her house in Rome, before it disappears.

Join us for a screening of This is how a child becomes a poet (2023), a short film directed by internationally renowned screenwriter and filmmaker Céline Sciamma. We are honoured to be joined by the director, who will be in conversation to discuss the film and her broader filmography as it engages gender and sexual politics.

The evening will include a screening of the short film, a brief interview with the chair and a conversational Q&A.

Meet the chair and speaker

Céline Sciamma is a screenwriter and film director. Her most acclaimed films include Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011), Girlhood (2014), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), and Petite Maman (2021). She won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Portrait of a Lady on Fire, along with numerous international awards and nominations for her work.

Dr Sadie Wearing is Associate Professor in Gender Theory, Culture and Film in the Department of Gender Studies. Her newest book Jill Craigie: Film and Feminism in Post-war Britain, co-authored with Yvonne Tasker, is forthcoming with University of Illinois Press. With Leticia Sabsay and Sumi Madhok, she edits the book series Thinking Gender in Transnational Times for Palgrave Macmillan.

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