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
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
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
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 … Continue reading
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
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. … Continue reading
Originally posted on Women's Film and Television History Network – UK/Ireland:
On the filmmaker, her BIFF Fellowship and book Naked Cinema by Rona Murray Sally Potter’s body of work outstrips most of those of many other British directors. In being involved in her retrospective at Bradford International Film Festival 2014, this is necessarily…
I’ll be chairing a discussion for the screening of Kate Millett’s films Three Lives and Gay Power, her collaboration with artist Sharon Hayes at the Showroom on Thursday 29th of May. Continue reading
A great follow up to the obit I posted some time ago that gives a series of responses to Firestone and her contributions to the women’s movement. n 1: On Firestone. Continue reading
The Women & Film Project 