My Own Lens and Skin: An Interview with Betzy Bromberg
Betzy Bromberg was born and raised in New York and has been making experimental work since 1976. Her intimate, intense…
Portrait of a Filmmaker
Portrait of Iris Elezi
Iris Elezi is an Albanian director, author and producer. In 2014, she co-directed ‘Bota’, aiming to “open up a window…
Portrait of Isabella Eklöf
“I’ve always had beef with the kind of film where danger lurks in the shadows because I find that very…
The Woman Everyone Knows: In Conversation With Aminatou Echard
In her most recent film, French filmmaker Aminatou Echard takes up the eponymous heroine of Jamilia, the 1958 novel by…
The Visible Woman: In Conversation with Penny Slinger
Penny Slinger is a British-born multimedia artist, whose dynamic body of work weaves together elements of eroticism, feminism, spirituality and…
“Deconstruct, reconstruct, challenge, celebrate”: In Conversation With Barbara Hammer
Another Gaze: Do you remember a moment when you decided to start making films? Barbara Hammer: I was studying painting…
Portrait of Teona Strugar Mitevska
Teona Strugar Mitevska is an award-winning narrative filmmaker from Macedonia. Her features (‘I Am From Tito Veles’, ‘The Woman Who…
Portrait of Penny Lane
We Skyped with Penny Lane, an American filmmaker whose award-winning documentaries are predominantly archival, often containing no original footage at…
In Conversation With Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. In the ’60s…
mother! in the name of The Father
“The stories of both the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene teeter constantly,” warns Donna Haraway, “on the brink of becoming much…
Portrait of Ildikó Enyedi
Ildikó Enyedi is a Hungarian screenwriter and filmmaker. She has directed eight films since 1989. My 20th Century won the…
Portrait of Sarah Turner
Portrait of Marie-Hélène Dozo
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…
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…
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…
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.’…
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…
