Review: Top of the Lake: China Girl
TW: Rape
Another Gaze↑
A journal of films and feminisms
Choreographies of Relation: Female Subjectivity in 'A Woman, a Part' (2016)
Elisabeth Subrin’s A Woman, a Part opens with an image of three figures in single file, arms reaching upwards in…
Review: 'Wind River'
TW: rape
Cinematic Riots: Feminism and Surrealism in Germaine Dulac's 'La Coquille et le Clergyman'
Germaine Dulac’s La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman) was arguably the first surrealist film ever made.…
Review: 'The Beguiled'
Virginia, 1864. The Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies – five pupils of varying ages, under the care of Miss Martha…
Black soul, white bodies: rethinking the music of 'Big Little Lies'
TW: Mentions of slavery and domestic abuse
Portrait of Marie-Hélène Dozo
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‘Girls rule, and rule, and rule’: revisiting ICA Biennale of Independent Film and Video 1997, 'The Raw and The Cooked', curated by B. Ruby Rich
In 1997, the ICA invited American queer feminist critic, curator and funder B. Ruby Rich to curate the fourth ICA…
Review: 'Wonder Woman'
Wonder Woman has carried a particularly heavy weight of expectation on her shoulders right from the announcement of the film.…
Going Gothic: Anticipating Sofia Coppola’s 'The Beguiled'
In March 2016, Variety reported that Sofia Coppola was set to write and direct a remake of Don Siegel’s 1971…
Portrait of Alice Lowe
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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…
Review: 'The Handmaiden'
TW: Mention of sexual abuse
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,…