Hito Steyerl’s Grey Zone
It’s said that Theodor Adorno asked to have the walls of his lecture hall painted a certain shade of grey.…
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A journal of films and feminisms
A Woman Escaped? The Female Automaton in Robert Bresson's 'Mouchette'
The first android was a woman. In Auguste Villiers de L’Isle-Adam’s novel L’Ève Future (1886), a fictionalised Thomas Edison attempts…
The Impossible Profession: On Justine Triet’s 'Sibyl'
In Promises, Promises, Adam Phillips writes, “When people need a new question to ask of themselves, then it may be…
Portrait of Iris Elezi
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The 57th New York Film Festival: Looking Towards Convergences in a Cluster of Films
Having just seen Alla Kovgan’s documentary about the monolithic figurehead of modern dance, Merce Cunningham, it is now my job…
Crisis-women: Prostitution and Capitalist Modernity in Lina Wertmüller’s 'Love and Anarchy'
“That pig must die!” declares Salomè, with tears in her eyes.
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…
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…