Locating the Lesbian Hand in Barbara Hammer’s Early Works
Barbara Hammer’s ‘Double Strength’ (1976) opens with a sequence of sepia photographs featuring Hammer and her then-partner, Terry Sendgraff, a…
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‘You Don’t Know What You Want, Do You?’ The Life And Work of Jane Arden
Jane Arden (a pseudonym possibly drawn from a ‘girl reporter’ comic strip, or a correspondent of Mary Wollstonecraft, or both,…
Finding Your Rage: On Club des Femmes’ ‘Revolt, She Said’ Programme
In 2018, feminism is everywhere and nowhere at once. Women, we are told, can now be CEOs, and entrepreneurs and…
Radical Banality: On Chantal Akerman, Labour in Cinema, and the Legacy of May ‘68
“The most boring, monotonous films [sic] any director ever made. In this film, they just show the woman doing her…
On the Double Nature of Filmed Mice
I’m watching Marketa Lazarova with a friend and we’re halfway through a scene that I consider to be one of…