Maria Schneider, 1983 and Manal Issa, 2024 by Elisabeth Subrin
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In a 1983 French TV interview, the legendary actress Maria Schneider responds to a question about the traumatic experiences she endured while filming Last Tango in Paris. In a meticulously crafted shot-for-shot reenactment of this interview, Elisabeth Subrin casts three contemporary actresses—Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval—to perform the role of Schneider in the interview. As they embody Schneider’s words, the performers consider her context alongside their own identities.
In a follow up two years later, Subrin films the French Lebanese actress Manal Issa, this time with Issa answering the questions as herself. Filmed in Beirut on September 22, 2024, just hours before the country was bombed by Israel, Issa’s answers consider the role of the actress during the unfolding global conflict.
Maria Schneider, 1983, 2022, France, DCP, English and French with English subtitles, 24 min.
Manal Issa, 2024, 2025, Lebanon and US, DCP, English, 10 min.
A conversation with Elisabeth Subrin and Manal Issa follows the screening, moderated by Alia Ayman.
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Saturday, October 25, 2 pm, Free
Dreamsong Art Gallery
1247 4th St NE, Minneapolis
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Alia Ayman is a film curator, maker, and scholar based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a cofounder of Zawya Cinema in Cairo and has contributed to the programs of Berlinale Forum, IDFA, Flaherty NYC, Arsenal Institute for Film and Video, and Images Festival, among others. She currently programs for the Arab Women Film Festival in Brazil and BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia. She holds a PhD in anthropology, culture, and media from New York University.
Manal Issa is a French Lebanese actress who “wanted to be a rock star” but studied engineering instead. She was cast in her breakout role of Lina, a Lebanese student struggling in her new Paris home, in 2015’s Parisienne by filmmaker Danielle Arbid. International audiences know her best as Sabrina, the teenaged member of the middle-class and multi-ethnic millennial terrorist group planning an attack in Bertrand Bonello’s thriller Nocturama (2016). Her other films include Ulysses & Mona (2018), Memory Box (2021), and The Sea Ahead (2021). In 2017 she was shortlisted for nomination for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She starred alongside her sister Nathalie Issa in the 2022 feature The Swimmers.
Elisabeth Subrin is a New York–based, award-winning director and artist. Her critically acclaimed films and video installations have been featured in numerous festivals and exhibitions internationally, including solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Vienna Viennale. Subrin’s 2016 award-winning feature narrative A Woman, A Part had its world premiere in competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and traveled to festivals throughout Europe, US, and Asia. It was released theatrically in 2017. Maria Schneider, 1983 had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival and received a César Award. A commissioned multichannel video, sound, and sculptural version, The Listening Takes, was on view at David Winton Bell Gallery in 2023. Subrin is currently developing her feature-length biopic about Maria Schneider.
Content note: The film Maria Schneider, 1983 contains references to sexual violence.
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