Desirous Dreams: The feminist erotics of Rebecca Horn’s ‘Berlin Exercises in Nine Parts’ (1974–75)
For a period of 12 months during 1968 and 1969, Rebecca Horn was isolated in hospital with lung poisoning contracted…
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Those Who Keep and Those Who Throw Away: On Hoarding in ‘Grey Gardens’, ‘The Gleaners and I’ and ‘Tidying Up With Marie Kondo’
“That’s all I need: an ordered life” —Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale, Grey Gardens Early last year, I experienced my…
In Defence of the Crazy Cat Lady: Carolee Schneemann’s Feline Muses
I came across Carolee Schneemann’s Infinity Kisses earlier this year during an insomniac’s trawl through YouTube, ten years after the…
Intimate Contact: Images of Suffering in the Work of Carolee Schneemann
“I live for the nude rabble rousing of Carolee Schneemann”.1 These words, written in a recent Facebook post by Lena…
Failing to Act, Acting to Fail: The Films of Margarethe von Trotta
“How is it that some people decide the fate of others?” asks Rosa Luxemburg in the opening of Margarethe von…
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…