DivineCaroline’s Sneak Peek at Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
DivineCaroline will present this exclusive sneak peek at Jennifer Fox’s amazing six-hour documentary, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. This opus will have its U.S. Theatrical Premiere at New York’s legendary Film Forum beginning July 4, 2007. We recommend seeing the whole series in the theater where possible as its a cinematic experience to be shared. Click here to find showings in a city near you.
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
2007, 360 minutes
Directed by Jennifer Fox
“What does the modern woman want? Where does she fit in today’s world?” Never before in our collective human history have so many women had such autonomy to construct a life of their own creation. Yet, the terrain is still rocky and “choice” does not necessarily bring happiness, let alone freedom. Meanwhile, old models of femaleness still haunt women everywhere.
In this six-hour tour de force, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, master storyteller Jennifer Fox lays bare her own turbulent life to penetrate what it means to be a free woman today. As her drama of work and relationships unfolds over four years, our protagonist travels to over seventeen countries to understand how diverse women define their lives when there is no map. Employing an ingenious new camera technique, called “passing the camera,” Fox creates a documentary language that mirrors the special way women communicate. Over intimate conversations around kitchen tables from South Africa to Russia, India, and Pakistan, she initiates a groundbreaking dialogue among women, illuminating universal concerns across race, class, and nationality. Part delectable soap opera, sociopolitical inquiry, and narrative experiments, Flying sweeps us up into an addictive international adventure chronicled with sincerity, innovation, and elegance.”—Caroline Libresco, Sundance Film Festival.
Director’s Statement
I am a very, very slow filmmaker. For me, ideas gestate for years—and only when the “beast” won’t go away, when it won’t leave me alone, am I sure that I should invest my life and make the damn thing. So, the ideas for Flying rolled around my head for many years and they just wouldn’t go away. First, in my mid-thirties, I began to notice that my conversations with women friends were somehow holding my life together. This was contrary to what I was taught growing up, which was that men would be the center of my life. Instead, I noticed that the men came and went, but my girlfriends remained constant. I began to think about why these female friendships were so important and why the way we spoke to each other was so powerful.
