BROAD: Films for Feminists interview with Robert Greene
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Sonja Hammer speaks to film maker Robert Greene who was visiting Melbourne for this years MIFF. Robert’s film is called Kate Plays Christine, a controversial and challenging film about the real life story of American broadcast journalist Christine Chubbuck who committed suicide live on TV in 1974.
In Greene’s film actress Kate Lyn Sheil portrays the late Christine Chubbuck ‘as a conduit to understanding an impossibly complex issue. Committed to doing justice to Christine’s life, Kate not only candidly pulls back the curtain on her acting process, but she also reveals the biases and presumptions even supposed experts can provide in their diagnosis. Kate Plays Christine boldly challenges its subjects and audience alike to accept that answers from the past are never easy.’-excerpt from the Sundance Institute.
Below: Kate Lyn Sheil and Robert Greene
Description: Greene’s film is a study of how an actor prepares for a role. Fascinated by the performative as well as the psychological dimensions of this fatal display, Greene and Sheil traveled to Sarasota, Florida, to the scene of Chubbuck’s death, to learn about her life and to make a film in which the actress would attempt to portray a woman whose motivations and mindset remain all but irretrievable from the tides of time (even an infamous videotape of the incident is said to be under lock and key).
Robert Greene,film maker in JOY 949
BIO:Robert Greene
Robert Greene’s films include the Gotham Awards–nominated Actress (2014), Fake It So Real (2012), and Kati with an I (2010). Robert has edited films including Queen of Earth (2015) and Listen Up Philip (2014) by Alex Ross Perry,Approaching the Elephant (2014) by Amanda Rose Wilder, and Christmas, Again (2014) by Charles Poekel. Robert writes for Sight & Soundand is the filmmaker-in-chief at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri.
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