In Conversation With Laura Mulvey (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2017-03-07 | My shift in spectatorship came very specifically out of the influence of the Women's Movement. Instead of being an absorbed spectator; a voyeuristic spectator; a male spectator, as it were, I suddenly found I'd become a woman spectator, who watched the film from a distance, not with those absorbed eyes.'Laura Mulvey is a feminist film theorist, whose seminal text 'Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema' instigated what is now known as 'male gaze' theory. Together with Peter Wollen, she also made many experimental films in the '70s and '80s. Here she talks Freud; Hollywood; her own counter-cinema; Frida Kahlo, and a shift to active spectatorship.
In Conversation with Iris Elezi Another Gaze Journal 2019-10-22 | Iris Elezi is an Albanian director, author and producer. In 2014, she co-directed 'Bota', aiming to "open up a window to the little known world of Albania" while dealing with its post-communist society. As co-founder of The Albanian Cinema Project and director of The Albanian National Film Archive, she's also a key figure in the preservation of Albanian film heritage. Filmed in Tirana, Albania by Tatjana Hoser in 2019.
In Conversation With Teona Strugar Mitevska (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2019-02-09 | Teona Strugar Mitevska is an award-winning narrative filmmaker from Macedonia. Her features ('I Am From Tito Veles', 'The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears' and 'When The Day Had No Name') all engage critically with post-Yugoslav Macedonian society and its multiple identities. Her latest film, 'God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya', about the challenges a woman faces in a traditional, male-dominated society, is in competition at this year's Berlinale.
In Conversation With Penny Lane (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2019-01-23 | Penny Lane is an American filmmaker whose award-winning documentaries are predominantly archival, often containing no original footage at all.Her latest feature, 'Hail Satan', about the rise of The Satanic Temple, has its premiere at Sundance.
In Conversation With Sarah Turner (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2017-09-17 | Sarah Turner is a filmmaker, curator and academic whose work is concerned with examining a changing social and environmental landscape. Her latest feature, 'Public House', documents how a community saved their local pub from its sale to a corporate development.
In Conversation With Marie-Hélène Dozo (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2017-07-03 | Marie-Hélène Dozo is a Belgian editor, who has worked on over 40 films, including the last 15 years of feature films by the Dardenne Brothers. Recently she edited Marielle Heller's 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' and 'Kinshasa Kids', for which she won the Magritte Award for Best Editing.
In Conversation With Alice Lowe (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2017-06-06 | Alice Lowe is an English director, screenwriter and actor. She has co-written and starred in TV shows and feature films including 'The Mighty Boosh' and Ben Wheatley's 'Sightseers'. Last year, when Lowe was pregnant, she directed, wrote and starred in 'Prevenge', a film about a pregnant woman on a killing spree.
Another Gaze in Cannes: Annarita Zambrano Interview Another Gaze Journal 2017-06-05 | 'I don't make films with my vagina, sorry. I make films with my brain, with my eyes'In the second of our Cannes encounters, we talk to Annarita Zambrano, an Italian director based in Paris, whose film 'Dopo la Guerra' (After the War) screened in Un Certain Regard. The film recounts the story of an ex-militant of the Italian far left, exiled in France, suspected of having ordered a terrorist attack.
Another Gaze in Cannes: Chloé Zhao Another Gaze Journal 2017-06-05 | 'I was very interested in the Indian cowboy culture because that's a great American contradiction: Native American cowboys... and through them I questioned the culture of masculinity'Chloé Zhao is a China-born filmmaker whose features have interrogated marginal American identities. Her latest, 'The Rider', debuted in Cannes at Director's Fortnight, where it won the top Art Cinema Award.
In Conversation With Dionne Walker (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2017-02-11 | 'In society, we're always interacting with the masculine. I think a very feminist film is actually about unpacking masculine energy.'Dionne Walker is a producer and director, whose work explores inequality across the cityscape. In 2015, she produced BAFTA-nominated 'The Hard Stop', about the killing of Mark Duggan. She is currently working on a film about migrant sex workers in Paris.
In Conversation With Juliane Lorenz (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2017-01-22 | Juliane Lorenz is a German film editor, whose career started at age 19 as Rainer Werner Fassbinder's editor. She went on to edit over 40 films, predominantly for Fassbinder and Werner Schroeter. She has also directed her own films and has written and edited many books on Fassbinder. She currently heads The Fassbinder Foundation, which she co-founded after his death.
In Conversation With Alice Diop (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2016-11-07 | Alice Diop on what drew her to documentary filmmaking, putting a face to refugees in France and the French film industry's race problem.In French, with English subtitles (click captions)
In Conversation With Marion Vernoux (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2016-07-14 | In French with English subtitles available
In Conversation With Beeban Kidron (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2016-06-17 | Beeban Kidron is a British director, producer and cinematographer. Her films include 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason', 'InRealLife' and 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit'.Here she discusses sexism in the industry, the Women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common and bringing lesbian sexuality to British TV in the '90s.
In Conversation With Sophie Fiennes (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2016-05-11 | Sophie Fiennes is a British director and producer. Her documentaries have included collaborations with Slavoj Žižek (The Pervert's Guide To Ideology; The Pervert's Guide to Cinema) and Anselm Kiefer (Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow). She is currently working on a collaboration with Grace Jones.
In Conversation with Amber Fares (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2016-03-30 | Amber Fares is a cinematographer and filmmaker, currently based in Palestine. Her first feature-length documentary 'Speed Sisters' follows the first all-women racing team in the Middle East.'Speed Sisters' is currently screening worldwide. See here for more details: http://speedsisters.tv/screeningsFilmed by Steph Hartop, Daniella Shreir, Dorothy Allen Pickard
In Conversation with Kim Longinotto (Interview) Another Gaze Journal 2016-02-24 | Filmed by Dorothy Allen-Pickard and Oliver Gordon, edited by Dorothy Allen-Pickard
