Sarah Maldoror (1928–2020), as remembered by her two daughters
These introductions were originally read as part of the roundtable 'The Legacies of Sarah Maldoror 1928–2020' (12 May 2020), which…
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A journal of films and feminisms
Jessa Crispin on Dasha Nekrasova's 'The Scary of Sixty-First' (2021)
From the first moments of The Scary of Sixty-First, I was thinking about Sofia Coppola. Not the films she directed,…
Passion Imperfect: On Danielle Arbid’s Simple Passion
Midway through Simple Passion (2020) the protagonist, Hélène, played with studied poise by Laetitia Dosch, announces to her lover, “I…
Layers of Reality: Zheng Lu Xinyuan's 'The Cloud in her Room'
“Dreamlike”, “transitory”, “driftily disjointed” – reviewers have used these terms fittingly to describe Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s debut feature, The Cloud…
How Do You Solve a Problem like Duszejko?: On Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ and Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Spoor’
For Janina Duszejko, the Polish protagonist of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Prowadź swój…
Rehearsed Realities: Cecilia Mangini’s Documentary Fictions of Rural South Italy
In a post-war Italy ravaged by two decades of fascism, reckoning with the ruins of its urban landscape, young photographer…
Desirous Dreams: The feminist erotics of Rebecca Horn’s 'Berlin Exercises in Nine Parts' (1974–75)
For a period of 12 months during 1968 and 1969, Rebecca Horn was isolated in hospital with lung poisoning contracted…
Imagined Adaptations
Elaine May adapts Elaine Dundy’s ‘The Dud Avocado’
Sense-Making From The Ground Up: The Films of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
From the 10th to the 23rd of July 2019, Puerto Rico, a Caribbean archipelago that has been subjected to U.S.…
An Unwavering Self-Regard: Sofia Coppola’s 'On The Rocks' (2020)
“That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see,” said Sofia Coppola in an…
What Is Democracy?: A Conversation With Astra Taylor
This interview was first published in Another Gaze 03
Seeing, and Seeing Through, Art History: The Resurrection of Hilma af Klint in 'Beyond the Visible' (Halina Dyrschka, 2019)
Sometime last year, I tweeted: “are Hilma af Klint selfies the new [Yayoi Kusama] infinity mirror selfies?” Selfies taken in…
Oubliette
Instructions for reading: Play the song ‘Art Decade’ by David Bowie on repeat while reading this text. Read the text…
Charlie Kaufman's 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' begs for forgiveness yet again
What might Charlie Kaufman have left to say about himself after writing about himself and his screenwriter ego personified as…
Broad Horizons and Shallow Vistas in Chloé Zhao’s 'Nomadland' —TIFF 2020
As I write this, the reviews for Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which premiered earlier this week at the Toronto International Film…
Cao Fei’s 'Blueprints' finds freedom in fantasy
Cao Fei’s 'Blueprints' begins in a room decorated to look like a mid-20th century foyer in China: the kind you…