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Director Signe Baumane will join us in person for a discussion after the film.
From an early age, songs and fairytales convince Zelma that Love would solve all her problems as long as she abides by societal expectations of how a girl should act. But as she grows older something doesn’t seem right with this concept of love: the more she tries to conform, the more her body resists. A story of inner-female rebellion.
My Love Affair With Marriage is an independent animated feature film by Signe Baumane created for an adult audience. The film, a Latvian – USA – Luxembourg co-production, took seven years to make and was financed with the help of 1,685 individual donors along with grants from arts and cultural institutions.
My Love Affair With Marriage had its World premiere June 11, 2022 at Tribeca Festival in New York City. On June 15th was the European premiere at Annecy International Film Festival in France (where it won Jury Distinction for a Feature Film) and the Latin American premiere at Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico. Three premieres in one week.
Signe Baumane is a Latvian-born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 16 award-winning animated shorts but is best known for her first animated feature “Rocks in my Pockets”. The film covers a 100-year history of depression and suicide of women in her family, including herself. It premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2014 where it won FIPRESCI Prize and went on to over 130 international festivals. It opened theatrically in the U.S. through Zeitgeist Films.
Signe’s new animated feature “My Love Affair With Marriage” fuses animation with music, theater, science, photography, three-dimensional sets and traditional hand-drawn animation to tell the story of a spirited young woman’s quest for perfect Love and lasting Marriage.
Signe is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow in Film for New York Foundation for the Arts. She has a degree in Philosophy from Moscow State University.
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“Latvian director Signe Baumane returns with a gloriously fun new feature that melds musical, science, animation and female rebellion” – Cineuropa
“The film reaches transcendent levels that make one lose track of all practical considerations as Zelma can at times, but Baumane never can be accused of the same thing, zeroing in on how women’s lives are shaped by cultural attitudes that predate them.” – Moveable Feast
“A cheeky look at womanhood, and a sophisticated cartoon for grown-ups.” – Cinemacy
