Review: 'Princess Cyd'
There is a particular way that teenage girls are imagined in cinema: situated in seemingly endless summers, they waft about…
Another Gaze↑
A journal of films and feminisms
Touch And Its Hesitations in Ildikó Enyedi’s 'On Body and Soul'
Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul (2017) is an exercise in counterpoint. From its opening sequences, the film unravels a…
Review: 'Beach Rats'
In her first feature,It Felt Like Love (2013), Eliza Hittman explored a young Brooklyn girl’s troubled life as she attempts…
Review: 'On The Beach At Night Alone'
Hong Sangsoo’s On the Beach At Night Alone is in fact two films. Shot by different cinematographers (Kim Hyung-koo and…
Review: 'Redoubtable'
In her memoir Un an après, the purported basis for Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable, the late Anne Wiazemsky recalls her astonishment,…
A Calling of the Ancestors? Jill Soloway's 'I Love Dick'
“Unfortunately, most films by women aren’t that good.” This declaration, made just two thirds of the way through the first…
Portrait of Sarah Turner
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Review: 'Okja'
Much like Okja the genetically modified pig, Okja the film had a controversial and ground-breaking genesis. It is one of…
Review: 'Mary Shelley'
Haifaa al-Mansour’s Mary Shelley suggests that the eponymous writer’s classic novel Frankenstein is the result of the influence of men…
Review: Top of the Lake: China Girl
TW: Rape
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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