Interview

Open dialogues and conversations with feminist practitioners working in visual culture.

Writer/Director of The Love Witch (2016), Anna Biller meets Kingsley Marshall to chat about writing women and challenging the patriarchy.

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Anna Linder from SAQMI talks to Dagmar Brunow about the challenges of curating queer film and video art during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jazmine Linklater talks to Vahni Capildeo about her exciting new poetry pamphlet Figure a Motion.

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MAI meets the makers of The Black Motherhood Project (2021) to talk about the documentary and the acute need to tell the stories of black mothers and daughters in the current cultural cl...

MAI meets a stunt woman, Rachelle Beinart to talk about unconscious gender bias in the film industry and her desire to inspire other young women to enter her profession.

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This conversation started at Berlinale in February 2018 and continued in May 2018 in Toronto, where Hagen showed her film At Second Glance/Auf den Zweiten Blick (2012).

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With WITCH, Tamás taps into the reinvigorated interest in witchcraft, especially in feminist and queer circles. She speaks to Sophia Kier-Byfield about ecological thinking and the pedago...

In 2018, Noel Nuccioni approached Karyn Kusama, American film & TV director to talk about horror films and today’s society, as well as about women and the director’s creative strate...

Photographer Julia Peirone talks about the importance of girlhood in her work, the relationship between subject and photographer and her influences.

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Kate Levey reflects on the extraordinary life and legacy of her mother, the writer and activist, Brigid Brophy.

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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