What the talk is about
The session «Aesthetic Pressure and Horror Movies» from the Ellas se reb(v)elan cycle focuses on the demands placed on women to conform to normative, youthful, and beautiful bodies. The discussion spans from cosmetic surgery to trends imposed on girls from a young age, highlighting how the market sets exhausting standards.
The thread running through the talk is genre cinema: it examines how women-directed horror has become a tool to denounce aesthetic pressure and violence against the body. Among the references cited is director Coralie Fargeat, whose work is analysed through a feminist and anti-capitalist lens of transgressive cinema.
Who is taking part
The speakers at this La Rossa event are Leticia Sala, author of Dame veneno que quiero vivir, and filmmaker Alodia Clemente. The combination of a literary and a cinematic voice reflects the cycle’s approach, which intertwines literature and film in each session.
What the Ellas se reb(v)elan cycle is
Ellas se reb(v)elan is a series of literature and cinema talks organised by La Rossa at their venue on Calle Murta. This event is a new instalment in the programme, centred on how women filmmakers revisit bodily mandates through horror.
