Portrait of Alice Lowe
‘Having done Prevenge it’s sort of like people going, “Well it still could have been a fluke, couldn’t it? Was…
Review: Agnès Varda’s ‘Faces, Places’ (‘Visages, Villages’)
The spirit of Visages, Villages is present even before its first frame when an animated version of Agnès Varda appears during…
Review: ‘The Handmaiden’
TW: Mention of sexual abuse Park Chan-Wook’s rework of Sarah Waters’s celebrated novel Fingersmith feels a lot like rope play:…
Review: ‘Personal Shopper’
In the opening scene of Personal Shopper, a young woman drives up to the high gates of a large house….
Review: ‘Cameraperson’
In one scene in Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson, we see a USB stick being thrown into a concrete mixer. Shot while…
Review: ‘The Future Perfect’
The future perfect is a strange tense. It describes actions that are going to be completed: what will have happened,…
Portrait of Andrea Luka Zimmerman
‘I’m not interested so much in producing a lot of work, but rather work with some depth. So much of…
Certain Women and Other Animals: A Symposium on the Cinema of Kelly Reichardt at the British Film Institute, London
Certain Women and Other Animals: a symposium on the cinema of Kelly Reichardt at the British Film Institute, London Sunday 5…
The Face and the Sea: Temporalities of Resistance | Coding and Representation Conference
Coding and Representation Conference Guildhall Art Gallery and the Courtauld Institute of Art 20-21 January 2017 Confronted by a face,…
Portrait of Laura Mulvey
‘My shift in spectatorship came very specifically out of the influence of the Women’s Movement. Instead of being an absorbed…
Review: ‘Certain Women’
“It would be so lovely to think that, if I were a man, I could explain the law and people…
Review: ‘Toni Erdmann’
When asked to reduce Toni Erdmann to its essential outline, the German actor Sandra Hüller, who plays Ines, described it…
Continual Discontent: The Cinema of Ousmane Sembène
To take part in the African revolution it is not enough to write a revolutionary song; you must fashion revolution…
Portrait of Dionne Walker
‘In society, we’re always interacting with the masculine. I think a very feminist film is actually about unpacking masculine energy.’…
Review: ‘Jackie’
Jackie, the first English-language film by Chilean director Pablo Larraín, offers a compellingly uneasy and nuanced portrait of one of…
Review: ‘La La Land’ and its discontents
Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has turned out to be a fascinatingly divisive film. It has enchanted thousands and swept up a…
In Conversation With Juliane Lorenz
‘At that time in Germany the profession was not really recognised and people thought that a woman editor just sits…
Portrait of Hope Dickson Leach
Portrait of Katrin Gebbe
‘When I showed my film, one of the first bits of feedback I got was ‘How is it possible that…
Portrait of Shamim Sarif
Portrait of Emilie Brisavoine