Farrell explores how dissonance between image, music, and sound is used in Le bonheur and Cléo de 5 à 7 to interrogate patriarchal constructs.
...Critical Reflection
Always radical, always engaged, always personal. Either scholarly or polemic writing that engages with feminist visual culture and feminist theory and history from a contemporary perspective. Our authors provide ground for reassessment of existing paradigms or subversive recuperation and reinterpretation.
Flitterman-Lewis explores the power of the sunflower signalling transformations of self and art in Varda’s six-decade career.
...Horner shows how Varda’s complex images of fragmentation and reconstruction interrogate the feminist implications of female corporeality.
...Using Azoulay’s and Agamben’s conceptualisations, Teichert frames celebration as a form of feminist activism.
...Introducing ‘the cinema of we’ in her analysis of two female documentaries, Putman attempts to redefine ‘first person film’ as she links it to autoethnography.
...McKay demonstrates how the gaze in Petite Maman’s bears an ability to queer the very nature of patriarchal and capitalist rhetorics.
...By drawing on excerpts from Bertini’s memoir published in 1969, Mitchell examines the Italian silent cinema diva Francesca Bertini as a spectator and performer for her female spectators.
...Reflecting on her own filmmaking practice, Reed Hillman weights the challenges against the benefits of autoethnographic feminist work.
...In her online meeting with Germán Rua, the Argentine filmmaker proved that her aesthetic project bears a strong discursive stance.
...A reflection on how the discourses around Wanda (1970) contributed to the erasure of the film from the cinema’s grand history.
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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