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Documentary Film Queen of Versailles shown at the weekend at Rey

Dates
25, October 2014 - 11, January 2015 (see calendar for other dates)
Open from 1.30pm - 3.10pm

Website http://www.ljosmyndasafnreykjavikur.is/um-safnid/frettirtilkynningar/
General Admission See on official website

The documentary film depicts Jackie Siegel and David Siegel, owners of Westgate Resorts, and their family as they build the Versailles house, the largest and most expensive single-family house in the United States, and the crisis they face as the U.S. economy declines.

Girl Culture is about the central role occupied by popular culture in the construction or deconstruction of female identity. The camera of American photographer Lauren Greenfield records the vanishing distance between a girl‘s everyday life and the idealized discourse about women in popular culture. The exhibition consists of portrait images and interviews that cast a light on the experiences and expressions of women today. In Girl Culture the ordinary and the extreme become intertwined: a teenaged girls obsession with appearance and the privade suffering of an anorexic woman; the girl playing dress-up and the stripper wearing a schoolgirl outfit.

Lauren Greenfield has worked as a documentary photographer and film maker since 1991. Greenfield´s work chronicles youth culture, gender and consumerism in America today.

Girl Culture was first published as a photography book in 2002 and the exhibtion has travelled widely around the U.S.A and Euroupe.

Greenfield‘s documentary films Queen of Versailles (2012) og Kids & Money (2008) will be shown during the exhibition period. Attention: Limited seats available.

Kids & Money (32 min) is shown during the opening hours of the exhibition: 12-19 weekdays and weekends 13-17 (except the weekends when The Queen of Versailles is shown). Limited seats available.

The Queen of Versailles (ca 100 min) will be shown at 13:30 following weekends: 25 and 26 October, 29 and 30 November and 10 and 11 January 2015.

Limited seats available.

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