Bête Noir is an experimental narrative short film that illuminates the internalization of the male gaze.
Rebecca Louise Tiernan
Rebecca Louise Tiernan is an Irish-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Floating between installation and narrative mediums, her work explores the entwined relationships between filmmaking, dreaming, and femininity. She has exhibited her works internationally including Cannes Film Festival, Cornwall Film Festival UK, Back_Up Film Festival in Weimar Germany, AXW Film Festival, IMC Lab + Gallery NYC, Gowanus Open Studios in Brooklyn NY, Fester Festival LA, The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena CA and The Hollows in Brooklyn, NY.
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