This video essay seeks to include African women in the new wave of critical writing on women and horror film.
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Personal engagement with visual culture from a feminist perspective through video practice. Always boundary pushing or avant-garde and at the forefront of feminist engagement.
Wan demonstrates how Li Shaohong’s The Door (2007) conveys horror through the lives of women in the toxic patriarchal society.
...In her essay, Robertson explores the audiovisual motif of Ophelia in Asato Mari’s, film, a supernatural coming-of-age queer love story
...Kutlu edits the soundtrack from Kaygı, the first Turkish horror directed by a woman, to imitate the film’s disorienting ambiance.
...Reading Clementina (2019), Monteoliva’s debut feature film, the authors discuss spectral motherhood and fear in the domestic environment.
...Wan-Ching (Hsiao-Feng Lu) and Ming (Lisa Yang) are doomed, tragic women, punished for ‘transgressions’. Could they be avengers?
...Foletto Lucas examines Good Manners (2018) focussing on the underprivileged perspective of Clara, a lower class, queer, Black woman.
...Through AI technology, this video crafts female faces for male pleasure, placing them onto a male body in the world of Kwaidan (1964).
...This video shows that Dahdaleh’s background as an Arab costume designer enables her to create nuanced female characters in 1980s Tehran.
...Ancuta examines the temporal orientation of ghosts, gothic time loops and the (im)possibility of ghostly time travel in Mattie Do’s 2019 film.
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