Demystifying the worthy figure behind our journal’s name, Mariah Larsson reads MAI Manifesto and praises Mai Zetterling (1925-1994) to show her as the most fitting patron of our work.
Mariah Larsson
Mariah Larsson is a Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She received her PhD in 2006 with a dissertation on Mai Zetterling’s feature films of the 1960s. Since then, her research has mainly focused on film and sexuality. Her recent publications include The Swedish Porn Scene: Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film (2017), Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution: Critical Essays (co-edited with Elisabet Björklund, 2016), and “Documentary Filmmaking as Colonialist Propaganda and Cinefeminist Intervention: Mai Zetterling’s Of Seals and Men (1979)” (with Anna Stenport, 2015). Currently, she is working on The Face of AIDS film archive, a collection of film material documenting the HIV/AIDS pandemic (edited volume A Visual History of HIV/AIDS, with Elisabet Björklund, forthcoming 2018) and a monograph in English on Mai Zetterling’s career as a filmmaker.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey