'Little Women', Little Change
If the radical potential of adaptation lies in its ability to harness the energy of an established text for new…
Another Gaze↑
A journal of films and feminisms
Red, White, Yellow, Black: A Multiracial Feminist Video Collective, 1972-73
On two nights – one in December 1972, the other April 1973 – the multiracial, multimedia feminist art collective Red,…
("Gay Panic"): On Fan Subtitles
My love for fan-made subtitles started with the Norwegian TV series Skam (2015-2017). Skam is a drama aimed at teenage…
Women on the Edge: History, Temporality, Sisterhood and Political Militancy in Marge Piercy’s 'Vida' and Margarethe von Trotta’s 'Die bleierne Zeit'
(Crawling titles rise from bottom of frame, white-on-black:)
Against Lists
Lists of films will not save you. Lists of films will not save films. Lists of films will not reorganise…
The Great Digestive Machine: Inside the Choreography of Loie Fuller and the Underwater Cinema of Geneviève Hamon and Jean Painlevé
If the afterlife exists, I’ve always imagined that I’d like mine to be underwater. I’d be reborn as something with…
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.…
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…