Tugevate tee / Strongs' Path

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I am a PhD student of Estonian Academy of Arts and my topic is female as a hero. The film is inspired from the lives of Soviet female tractor drivers who worked so hard that they were nominated as Hero of Labour. Although female tractor driver as a construction within Soviet ideology was very popular, machinery has still always been man's thing. Women who wanted to be tractor drivers, had to fight for that. If they worked hard, they could win important awards and their salary was equal to men's. In Soviet Union women had to work but they also had to do all the household duties. It was not common for men to cook, wash dishes or walk with the baby carriage. So women had to carry a double burden. The film contains five little pictures (scenes). The main character is not always the same, because I wanted to show the similar situations were common for many women. Now more about pictures: picture 1 - an older man foretells to the young girl that she is going to be a tractor driver. 2. Young woman gave a tractor driver's exam successfully and is happy about it 3. Old and famous female tractor driver, a Hero of Labour, gives younger a lesson 4. Women who has no time at home to play accordion, does that at night on the roof of the tractor. 5. Female tractor driver sees the confirmees for the first time and is amazed by their beauty. Suddenly she feels herself very lonely and not feminine either pretty. Biography and Filmography: http://fideelia.future.ee/cv-en.html Filmography 2015 Kalju and Aivar Otsman Screenings “The Hero of Our Time”, Luunja Estonia 2015 Strongs’ Path Screenings Gallery “The Hero of Our Time”, Luunja Estonia 2014 Amazon Maria Wattel Screenings EAA (EKA) Gallery, Estonia 2014 Stone Carrier (performance documentation) Screenings EAA (EKA) Gallery 2014 - … The Tale of Voore City (long duration performance documentation) Screenings EAA (EKA) Gallery 2014 Saving Voore City Screenings EAA (EKA) Gallery 2014 Apotheosis of Annelinn Screenings A(nne)linnad at Y-Gallery Tartu Estonia 2011 Angst - Bare Breasted Walk Through Estonia – performance documentation Screenings Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes in KUMU Art Museum of Estonia R. Sagrits museum in Karepa Teddybear's Happiness Screenings Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn Estonia 2009 Art isn't by hobby, it is my job! - performance documentation Screenings Tallinn TV Kultuurimeeter Airplane and Cow Screenings Ladyfest Tallinn 2012. Film Prize 2010 Artist – Zero Income, Zero Expectations – videos for an installation Screenings Titanik gallery in Turku Finland 2010 2009 Man’s Path 0:16:37 Screenings Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn Estonia 2009 Gender Conference Men, Women and Others 2009 Festivals Estonian 46. Amateur Film Festival. 2011. Grand Prize Self-Exposure 0:08:54 (videoinstallation) Screenings Tallinn Art Hall 2009 2008 Estonian Flag 0:01:47 Screenings NG Art Container,Tallinn 2008 Contemporary Art Show ART IST KUKU NU UT in Tartu Art Museum, Estonia 2012 A Study: why There are So Few Women in Politics? 0:10:31 Screenings Tallinn Art Hall 2008 2007 Father and Daughter 0:02:16 Screenings NG Art Container,Tallinn 2008 Artdepoo gallery Tallinn 2008 Old People Will Die 0:03:29 Screenings City Museum of Ljubljana Slovenia 2008 Photo Epicenter gallery, San Francisco, CA, US 2007 Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn 2007 Feminine Intuition 0:18:30 Screenings Guangzhou China 2008 KUMU Art Museum Tallinn 2007 Various conferences Vepsa. Women, Men and Work 0:29:25 Screenings Komi Respublic 2008 Estonian Academy of Art 2007 2006 Regular Pensioner 0:15:00 Screenings Tartu Health Care College showed it in the course „Functional ageing and healt of the aged peole.“ 2009-2012 Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn 2007 PGR ART Gallery Gdansk, Poland 2006 Museum of Contemporary Art of Estonia (KUMU) 2006 Festivals Estonian 43. Amateur Film Festival in Kinomaja, Tallinn, Estonia 2008. Prize Tartu Youth Videofestival NAFF 2007. Best documentary prize International Pärnu Fideo- and Vilmfestival 2006 Steps at Night 0:04:00 Festivals Tartu City Library's literature based film competition 2007. Grand Prize Beauty Cure 08:19 Screenings Estonian Acad of Art 2006 Festivals International Pärnu Fideo- and Vilmfestival 2006 2004 A Beggar 0:01:46 Screenings Tartu Art School 2004 Festivals International Pärnu Fideo- and Vilmfestival 2006 Homo Sapiens. 0:04:36 Screenings Tartu Art School 2004 2003 Hilda 0:13:59 Screenings Tartu Health Care College showed it in the course „Functional ageing and healt of the aged peole.“ 2009-2012 Y-Gallery, Tartu Estonia 2004 Festivals Tartu Youth Videofestival NAFF 2005 2001 I Feel Better Now 0:12:25 Screenings Contemporary Art Center of Chisinau, Moldova 2001 Pärnu Contemporary Art Center, Estonia 2001

are you ready to move?

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“In order to grasp and analyse rhythms, it is necessary to get outside them, but not completely… A certain exteriority enables the analytic intellect to function… In order to grasp this fleeting object, which is not exactly an object, it is therefore necessary to situate oneself simultaneously inside and outside. A balcony does the job admirably.” Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis In the absence of a balcony, I attempted to grasp the rhythms of Népszínház utca from the window of my flat. The notorious street – literally translated as People’s Theatre Street – cuts through the middle of Józsefváros, a district of Budapest with a notorious reputation amongst those who live outside it; a notorious street in a notorious district. As A., a young woman from Buda puts it “when I see the sign ‘Népszínház’ at the end of the street I get a tight feeling inside like something bad will happen.” Of course, she admits, nothing ever has. But the feeling persists amongst many that the district has a problem that needs to be remedied. The remedy comes in the shape of gentrification, a process mediated by the state at various scales. A short walk through the district will allow a better understanding of why the district has a bad reputation and also outline some of the most important processes currently underway in Józsefváros. After providing this brief contextual background to the film, I will explain very briefly my understanding of gentrification and how the state is involved in the process as well as why the analysis of rhythms is useful in gaining an insight into it. Finally, I will provide some notes on what anthropological knowledge I attempted to produce in making Are You Ready to Move? Józsefváros. Leaving the flat and walking though the bustling Népszinház utca, with its cast of drunken men and array of mobile phone shops staffed almost exclusively with migrants from the Middle East, you start to understand why the district has a shifty reputation amongst those who live outside it. Moving down and through the street, the Magdolna Quarter creates an even starker picture, labelled a “ghetto” by the local government it boasts ‘notorious’ squares where, depending upon with whom you talk, you will be told that this where a) terrible crimes happen or b) where all the best Roma musicians learnt how to play. As with all reputations you cannot expect too much to be true and should not be upset if you leave without being mugged or hearing gypsy music, although you might meet a social worker from Rev8, the government owned company responsible for the regeneration of the quarter, as they goes about their task of social urban regeneration. The great cranes from the nearby building site nearby can be seen from here too, swinging above the district in time to a different beat, crisscrossing each other in the sky. They loom above one future of the district, the Corvin Promenade Project, involving renovation, demolition and the rebuilding of 22 hectares of land for multipurpose use including living, working, shopping. But before visiting what will become the ‘new downtown’ you could witness the old, walking briskly in the direction of the Danube, crossing the Big Ring Road and into the inner part of the district, where renovation has long been on the cards. Here you can observe beautiful Eclectic-Secessionist buildings from the nineteenth century periodically greeting you before you arrive at the National Museum and the edge of the VIII. Walking past drunks, through ghettos and building sites is, of course, not everyone’s cup of tea so, if you can wait until 2011/12/13 (deepening upon how optimistic the forecaster is) you can ride the brand new Metro 4 line which not only saves the time and effort of walking but also gives “the internal part of Józsefváros… an unprecedented chance of integration” (metro4.hu). These different and concerted attempts at remoulding the district constitute part of the ongoing gentrification of Józsefváros. Gentrification. What gentrification is and is not, is a complex debate so I will start from the position that gentrification is the class-based colonisation of a poorer neighbourhood and reinvestment in (including demolition and complete rebuilding of) housing stock. Gentrification is driven by the movement of capital into areas that were previously sites of disinvestment, with gentrification most likely to happen in areas where there is the biggest difference between current ground rent and potential future ground rent (Smith 1979, 1996). Historically, in western Europe and America the reinvestment has been concentrated in the old downtown areas. In Hungary the process followed strikingly similar patterns, though for very different reasons with the initial lull in residential construction in the ‘Stalinist’ period from 1948 to the early sixties, being followed by a boom in suburban construction in the 60’s and 70’s and a renewe