Where you a reader of Women & Film magazine? I’m looking for anyone who came across the magazine in its heyday and has a memory to share about it. Was it inspiring? Was it informative? Were you involved in writing about or making films, and did it play a part? If you have a memory or story …
Just had to watch the rest of this amazing interview with Simone de Beauvoir which I saw a bit of today at Debout! Feminist Activism and the Moving Image in France and Beyond, the last in a mini marathon of feminist research events that took place this week, including the Flying conference on Kate Millett. …
Leaving San Francisco felt like saying goodbye to something bigger. Sounds dramatic, but America is a dramatic place. Even the train was dramatic – bigger and better than any train I’d ever been on. As we rattled up the West Coast it made it all the more clear how vast the country is. We had …
Just discovered some fantastic images of Berkeley circa 1973 by the photographer Nacio Jan Brown. Check them out here http://www.josephbellows.com/artists/nacio-jan-brown/#27
San Francisco, the first stop on our Women and Film fueled adventure. We arrived at night and were driven into the city centre by a man with a ride share van. He reminded me of that short one from Ghostbusters and was very chatty. So much so, he didn’t really look at the road whilst …
An absolutely inspiring project about the pioneering filmmaker, Alice Guy Blache. Support this project – I know I will be! Be Natural
2011 saw the publication of two magazines that engaged with the gender imbalance in popular film journalism: Studio magazine, which describes itself as ‘the UK’s first film magazine for women – the first and only of its kind’, and New Empress, a magazine that ‘attempt[s] to take gender out of the equation a little bit and …
A great article on radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, who died last year. You can see the original article here. DEATH OF A REVOLUTIONARY Shulamith Firestone helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it. BY SUSAN FALUDI APRIL 15, 201 When Shulamith Firestone’s body was found late last August, in her studio apartment …
Can YOU identify this image? You might recognise it from the cover of B. Ruby Rich’s book Chick Flicks. It’s actually front the back cover of Women & Film no. 1, but it is uncredited and uncaptioned and I can’t find out where it’s from! Any one out there know? Send an email to clarissakennedyjacob@gmail.com if you …
Went to see this and Je, tu, il, elle by Chantal Akerman last night.
Women’s Strike for Equality on the News with Walter Cronkite, August 26th 1970.
Dusan Makavejev’s 1971 film repeatedly appears in Women & Film. A screening is being held at the Barbican in June of this year, click here to book. Here is a description of the film from their website: ‘The work of controversial psychoanalyst and sex therapist Wilhelm Reich on the correlation between erogenous satisfaction and political freedom …
A clip from Moshe Mizrahi’s film Les Stances a Sophie. The film was reviewed in issue 1 and is frequently referred to as it was adapted from Christiane Rochefort’s book and she also wrote the screenplay. An extensive interview with Rochefort can be found in double issue 3/4.
Last year I started producing a google map of California in the 1970s, with key locations relating to the women’s movement, the anti-war movement and the magazine itself marked on it. Click here to see the map. It can also be found in the Resources section of the Main Menu.
People I’m looking for or things I need more information about… April Ford Almost impossible to search for as her name is both a month of the year and she shares a surnames with not only a US president, but a hugely famous director AND the most famous car manufacturer in history. Wrote an article …
When dealing with an object like a magazine, which connects to a multitude of events from its historical moment and beyond, some kind of perspective is necessary. After a few attempts at creating timelines on sheets of paper and word docs, I found this website that allows you to create one using a smart and …
The first issue of Women & Film magazine contains many references to Jean-Luc Godard, an unsurprising fact given the director’s towering presence in US film culture of the early 1970s. It’s clear that the magazine’s editors and many of its writers were hugely preoccupied with his work and his ideas about cinema. Even before you get … Continue reading
I’m currently working on a chapter about the first women’s film festivals that took place in the 1970s. I previously wrote about the very first one, The First International Festival of Women’s Films, for my MA. At the time, I interviewed its director, Kristina Nordstrom, in LA, as well as the filmmaker Amalie Rothschild, who … Continue reading
Women & Film magazine is now available to view and download from the very excellent and long-running journal Jump Cut. Getting the magazine online has been a long hoped-for goal of my research, so the fact that this is happening is very exciting. When I started researching for my doctorate in late 2011, the BFI … Continue reading
We interviewed Jeanne Cordova at her home in LA during our first stint of filming for the Women & Film Project in October 2013. We never knew what to expect with our interviewees: would we accidentally dredge up painful memories; would I cause offence with my blundering amateurishness as an interviewer? But meeting Jeanne was like meeting … Continue reading
It’s 2016 so we thought we’d better give you an update of how we got on in 2015. After our #feministAdventures in New York in April, we’ve been working away, researching, reading, editing, watching, thinking, experimenting, talking, sharing and trying hard not to procrastinate (too much). Despite having lots of projects to juggle and geographical … Continue reading
Ger’s Blog – 29th May 2015 We’ve been back from New York for about 2 weeks. My brain is still reeling but already some of the adventure feels a bit like a dream. When in America we stayed in five different apartments and an 18th Century Farmhouse in Maine. We spent a lot of time … Continue reading
One of the videos discussed in Jeanne Betancourt’s article on the 1972 Women’s Video Festival in New York. How great that it’s online! Also screened: Descartes (1968) by Joanne Kyger. Just brilliant! Continue reading
Originally posted on History of Feminism Network:
NOTE FROM THE SEE RED WOMEN’S WORKSHOP “Founders and later members of the British feminist poster collective, See Red Women’s Workshop (1974-1990) are involved with putting a book together about the posters and we are hoping to gather a collection of memories from women who were involved at…
This short film by Nell Cox screened at the First International Festival of Women’s Film in 1972 in New York, and was subsequently featured in the second issue of Women & Film by Saundra Salyer. Continue reading
I went to see The Red Detachment of Women at the BFI as part of their Century of Chinese Cinema season (watch the trailer, it’s great) on Friday. The motivation was research: Siew-Hwa Beh writes about The Red Detachment of Women in issue 1 of Women & Film. I’ll admit, I was expecting a heavy-handed and wooden … Continue reading
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