Mati Diop’s ‘Atlantique’ (‘Atlantics’) turns to the women left behind
In Mati Diop’s short film Atlantiques (2009), three young Senegalese men sit around a bonfire in Dakar at night, one…
Intimacy, Distance and Detail in Ute Aurand’s ‘Rasendes Grün mit Pferden’ (‘Rushing Green with Horses’)
Watching Ute Aurand’s Rushing Green with Horses is like being spirited sideways into a pastoral. Shot entirely in 16mm with…
Céline Sciamma’s ‘Portrait de la jeune fille en feu’ (‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’) explores the boundlessness of poetic love
“Do all lovers feel like they’re making things up?” one woman asks another in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait de la jeune…
Who gets to be ‘the people’? Astra Taylor’s ‘What Is Democracy?’ and Gabrielle Brady’s ‘Island of the Hungry Ghosts’
An impromptu interview on a beach in Miami. A casually dressed white woman in her thirties is perched comfortably on…
Thinking Through Camille Billops (1933-2019)
“You have to have a certain sense of defiance in you so you don’t self-destruct. They can’t stop the creative…
Lorene Scafaria’s ‘Hustlers’ and the Anatomy of the Scam
Recently our headlines have been dominated by young female scammers: scammers whose exploits are spoken of with breathless fascination. Their…
The Queer Subjectivity of Charlotte Prodger’s ‘BRIDGIT’
Near the end of her Turner Prize-winning film ‘BRIDGIT’ (2016), Charlotte Prodger remembers reading “things Sandy Stone wrote in 1994…
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger: A Canadian Wake-Up Call —TIFF
“Racism and discrimination is what’s keeping services away from our children and that’s the bottom line.” So says Carolyn Buffalo,…
Dominga Sotomayor’s Unstable Utopias: ‘Too Late To Die Young’ (‘Tarde para morir joven’)
Utopias critique by differentiation, springing from a lack. They work, writes Lucy Sargisson, “by creating distant spaces whence to interrogate…
A Magnificent Filial Debt: Love and Family in Lulu Wang’s ‘The Farewell’
It’s difficult for me to process The Farewell, a film so acute in its approximation of the shape of my…
Fantasy Without Catharsis: María Paz González’s ‘Lina From Lima’ —TIFF
María Paz González’s first narrative feature Lina from Lima (2019) is a musical comedy about migrant life in Chile that…
Fate and the State: Sophie Deraspe’s ‘Antigone’ —TIFF
Sophie Deraspe’s film adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone updates the central themes of the original – family, exile, state power and…
On Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s ‘The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open’ —TIFF
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open follows a day in the life of…
Call For Submissions – Another Gaze 04
Another Gaze is seeking submissions for its fourth print issue, to be released this December. Another Gaze is a printed and online…
Finding freedom in Sturla Pilskog and Sidse Torstholm Larsen’s ‘Winter’s Yearning’ —Open City Docs
It would have been too precious for Winter’s Yearning to have been titled Waiting for Alcoa, yet Beckett’s existential drama…
Selling Sweat: On the Ethics of Renting ‘Extraordinary Bodies’ in Mika Rottenberg’s Videos
Throughout Mika Rottenberg’s career, the artist has – as she puts it – rented the bodies of extraordinary women. By…
Notes on the City: Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Adrian Jackson’s ‘Here For Life’ —Locarno
In an interview in 1968 Pasolini described going especially from Casarsa to Udine to see Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle…
Work With Us! Another Gaze is looking for an editor
As Another Gaze‘s tiny team struggles to keep up with editorial demands, we’re looking for another editor to assist us. You…
‘You Don’t Know What You Want, Do You?’ The Life And Work of Jane Arden
Jane Arden (a pseudonym possibly drawn from a ‘girl reporter’ comic strip, or a correspondent of Mary Wollstonecraft, or both,…
A House That Is Not A Home: Yoon Sung-A’s ‘Overseas’ —Locarno
How can cinema show social reproduction? Yoon Sung-A’s documentary Overseas (2019), focuses on a training centre for overseas domestic workers…
On Mourning and Paralysis: Anna Sofie Hartmann’s ‘Giraffe’ —Locarno
In Anna Sofie Hartmann’s debut feature Giraffe (2019), the underwater tunnel being built to connect Denmark with Germany is bestowed with a kind…