Beginnings is Brammen’s student film experiment—a non-narrative, somewhat feminist, take on the dominance of narrativity in our western culture and our cinemas.
Natalia Brammen
Natalia Brammen is an undergraduate Film student at Falmouth University in the UK. She is primarily interested in screen representations of less privileged groups, questioning gender norms and expectations. In her dissertation, from a feminist standpoint, she interrogated the male privilege and the glorification of male auteurs in the contemporary cinema. She is currently working on a documentary exploring the concept of millennial burnout. Her work as a non-narrative film practitioner awarded her with experience in various roles ranging from directing and writing to sound design. Natalia typically uses visual storytelling to create an emotional response and provoke her viewers’ engagement in social and cultural debates.
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