67th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
5 NOVEMBER → 15 NOVEMBER 2026
Masterclass with Laura Mulvey: The politics of looking
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
11:00 – 12:30
Pavlos Zannas Theater
Admission is free, on the issue of a zero-value ticket.
Influential filmmaker, author, theorist and academic Laura Mulvey, one of the most important voices in feminist film theory, engages in a conversation revisiting questions of visual pleasure, desire and spectatorship that have shaped generations of filmmakers, critics and audiences. She returns to her pioneering concept of the “male gaze,” explores how cinema shapes perceptions of gender and power, and reflects on the enduring influence of moving images on the way we see and understand the world. The conversation is part of the Laura Mulvey programme curated by the Festival and Georgia Korossi (BFI Digital Production Editor, freelance curator and producer).
Moderator: Geli Mademli, film researcher/TIFF publications coordinator
The masterclass will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation into Greek.
LAURA MULVEY
Laura Mulvey is Emerita Professor of Film at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Visual and Other Pleasures (Macmillan 1989 / 2009); Fetishism and Curiosity (British Film Institute 1996 / 2013); Citizen Kane (BFI Classics Series 1992 / 2012); Death Twenty-four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (Reaktion Books 2006) and Afterimages: on Cinema, Women and Changing Times (Reaktion Books 2019) as well as three co-edited collections of essays. She made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen, including Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1983). With artist / filmmaker Mark Lewis, she made Disgraced Monuments (1994) and 23 August 2008 (2013).
