Inspired by Tina Modotti, Bustamante & Strippoli create a visual story that interweaves the past with the struggles of contemporary feminism.
Paz Bustamante
Paz Bustamante is Professor of Philosophy in Middle-Higher Education (UBA). She completed a Master in Alternative Cinema at EICTV, Cuba. She is now working on her PhD thesis on Narcisa Hirsch. Paz directed a number of documentary films, including Ofrendas y Hallazgos (2017), Derecho Verde (2018) co-directed by with Valentina Kelly, Vanina Bustos and Unx (2019), which was exhibited in various festivals and exhibitions. She also co-directed Apuntes Feministas (2018) with Giulia Strippoli. Paz also worked on feature films , Las Pistas: Lanoyij: Nimitaxanaxac (2010), Sipo’hi: El lugar del manduré (2011) and Imagen Mala (2017) directed by Sebastián Lingiardi. Currently, she is particpating in a research project ‘Disyunciones entre imagen visual e imagen sonora en el cine documental-ensayo’. Since 2018 Paz has been a member of the Audiovisual Women Collective (Mujeres Audiovisuales, MUA). She offers workshops on gender representations and the screen portrayals of the body.
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