Years ago, Jem Mackay met Paterson whilst working on a film. Here they reunite to discuss her career as a female filmmaker.
Jem Mackay
Jem Mackay is the course leader for MA Film & Television (Online) at Falmouth University. He is a filmmaker, researcher and artist who has been exploring collaborative systems within creative projects for the last fifteen years. He studied audio-visual communication at St Martins School of Art; received a distinction for his MA in Digital Arts at University of Arts, London; and completed his PhD at Falmouth University, looking at non-hierarchy through open-source approaches to distributed filmmaking. In his time, he has experimented with a number of collaborative art events in non-art public venues. He initiated several art collectives including Explosure in Brixton and the House Art Gallery in Camberwell, London, which was an artist-led exhibition space that showed works by local artists but also exhibited pieces by more well-known artists such as Sir Terry Frost and Anthony Gormley alongside. He has also written a chapter entitled The Philosophical Importance of Collaboration in a collection of writings by artists entitled Philosophy of Art and has represented Falmouth University in several conferences worldwide including an AHRC funded project called The University of the Village, which was a pedagogical exploration of rural communities accessing university knowledge and practice.
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