A fresh look at Hermína Týrlová, the mother of Czech animation, once the winner of many awards who isn’t well-remembered outside her country.
Jennifer Lynde Barker
Jennifer Lynde Barker is an Associate Professor of film studies at Bellarmine University, where she directs the Film Studies minor and specialises in animation and film history and aesthetics. Author of The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection, she has published numerous articles and film reviews (in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Literature/Film Quarterly, MUBI Notebook, and Cinema Scope, among others) and curated animation programs at the Midnight Sun Film Festival. She is currently writing a book on early 20th century animation.
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