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New Day Films, Digital Distribution, and Collective Aesthetics
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 153–163.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Elizabeth Coffman; Erica Stein New Day Films was formed in 1972 as a feminist media collective to distribute films addressing gender issues. Forty years later, New Day boasts close to two hundred members and yearly distribution profits of $1 million. This article uses New Day's history...
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Arnait Video Productions: Inuit Women's Collective Filmmaking, Coalitional Politics, and a Globalized Arctic
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 153–163.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Arnait builds on the strategies deployed by the well-known Nunavut-based video and film collective Isuma and also radically departs from it by including women in key production roles. In doing so, Arnait foregrounds women's stories and perspectives from an Inuit point of view and thereby counteracts...
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Women’s Interventions in the Contemporary German Film Industry
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 147–155.
Published: 01 December 2018
... film authorship, namely: feminist structures (WIFTG), demands for a quota system (PQF), and a grassroots feminist mentoring collective of film school graduates (ITW). gender parity German film industry quota system film collectives Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen Copyright © 2018 Camera...
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Representation Matters: Tatjana Turanskyj on Women’s Filmmaking and the Pro Quote Film Movement
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 129–145.
Published: 01 December 2018
... on her work, and her resistance to postfeminist trends prevalent in contemporary visual media. film collectives gender equity feminist film German film industry postfeminism Tatjana Turanskyj Copyright © 2018 Camera Obscura 2018 ...
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The Ghost in the Machine: The Biopolitics of Memory in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (1 (97)): 113–137.
Published: 01 May 2018
...China Medel This article examines the role of image culture in producing collective memory and opportunities for transnational solidarity in Alex Rivera’s science fiction film about the US-Mexico borderlands, Sleep Dealer (US/Mexico, 2008). The article shows that the film offers two contrasting...
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A New Form for a New People: Forugh Farrokhzad's The House Is Black
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (1 (94)): 1–31.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Sara Saljoughi This article examines the problem of collectivity in Forugh Farrokhzad's The House Is Black ( Khaneh siah ast , Iran, 1962), an experimental film set in a leper colony in northwestern Iran. Focusing on the film's experiments with form, the article explores how the development of new...
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“All Your Faves Are Problematic”: The Performative Spectatorship of Drunk Feminist Films
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (2 (110)): 149–159.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Shana MacDonald Abstract This article looks at the work of the Drunk Feminist Film (DFF) collective from Toronto, Canada. DFF screenings offer interactive in‐person and online events that combine watching popular Hollywood films with simultaneous live commentary, audience participation, and hashtag...
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The Asexual-Single and the Collective: Remaking Queer Bonds in (A)sexual, Bill Cunningham New York , and Year of the Dog
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 27–63.
Published: 01 May 2016
... of collectivity, friendship, and even interspecies affinities, giving spectators glimpses into queer existential and political formations outside of a predominantly LGBT framework. Marc Francis is pursuing his PhD in film studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He works on several topics...
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Memory Resurrected in HD: Collective Digital Video Filmmaking as Production of Counterhistory in the Folk Memory Project
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jinying Li This article examines the Folk Memory Project, a collective documentary initiative in China that organized young filmmakers to return to their home villages to interview elders and unearth silenced memories of the devastating Chinese Great Famine of 1959–61. Focusing on two films...
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Maria Hirszbein: An (In)visible Figure of Polish Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 61–83.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to social issues. In reconstructing Hirszbein's professional biography, the text combines different sources such as press reports, film reviews, photographs from the collection of the Polish National Film Archive (FINA), and data collected by the Institute of Jewish History in Warsaw. Figure 3. Group...
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Collectivity in (Stop-)Motion: Lift Animation, Lantern Software, and the Making of Community
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 165–173.
Published: 01 May 2016
... , and Bright Lights Film Journal . © 2016 by Camera Obscura 2016 Lift Animation Lantern Software stop-motion animation collectivity disability Figure 1. Lantern (Lift Animation, US, 2013)
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The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema: Female Authorship and the Short Film Format
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
Published: 01 May 2014
... gained popularity, queer Asian cinema still exists primarily as a festival category representing a collection of films produced outside of particular national and industrial contexts. The limited scholarship on queer Asian cinema reflects the dominance of a national critical approach. Such an approach...
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Looking Back and Forward: A Conversation about Women Make Movies
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
Published: 01 May 2013
... the world on independent film distribution, marketing, and financing as well as on women's film. Patricia White is a member of the editorial collective of Camera Obscura and the current chair of the Women Make Movies board. Professor of film and media studies at Swarthmore College, she...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of women’s cinema at present, visible in the rise of the Berlin School, the development of women-oriented production collectives, and the resurgence of feminist organizing on behalf of gender parity in the contemporary German film industry. feminist film theory German women’s movement neo-liberalism...
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Agnès Varda and Le Collectif 50/50 en 2020: Power and Protest at the Cannes Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 127–153.
Published: 01 May 2021
... achievement award) in the name of other creative directors not yet in the spotlight. In 2018, Varda joined with the 50/50 en 2020 collective, a gender equity campaign, on the Cannes red carpet to call for gender parity and greater transparency in the festival's process of selecting films to screen...
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Art on Film at Finch College: Reproductive Labor in the Enrichment Economy
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 81–101.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of the time theorized as reproductive labor, works in the Projected Art series shift attention to the reproductive labor of caring for, curating, collecting, and consuming visual art and film. I argue that Varian's exhibitions as a whole complicate our understanding of process‐oriented work during the postwar...
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Valencia: The Movie/s : A New Collectivity
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 165–175.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Liz Clarke; S. Topiary Landberg In this article, the authors argue that the 2013 omnibus film Valencia: The Movie/s (US) presents a unique approach to collective filmmaking in its adaptation of Michelle Tea's queer coming-of-age memoir Valencia (2000). This approach creates a sense of cultural...
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Not Your Mother’s Melodrama: Three Twenty-First-Century Women’s Films
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (2): 133–161.
Published: 01 September 2019
... on a collective problem of how we negotiate a proper proximity to cherished others. All three films turn from what could have been to what the past makes possible now and thus change melodrama from a melancholic genre to a generative one. Copyright © 2019 Camera Obscura 2019 melodrama Chantal Akerman...
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Machinic Intimacies and Mechanical Brides: Collectivity between Prosthesis and Surrogacy in Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates and Spike Jonze's Her
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (1 (91)): 65–91.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Alla Ivanchikova This article offers a reading of two recent feature films, Jonathan Mostow's Surrogates (US, 2009) and Spike Jonze's Her (US, 2013), as allegories of the tensions inherent in our collective relation with machines, examining the role technology plays in the constitution...
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Maquilapolis : An Interview with Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre
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Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 173–181.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Rosa-Linda Fregoso In January 2007 the author interviewed Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre about the making of their new documentary Maquilapolis . Produced and developed in partnership with the Chilpancingo Collective, Maquilapolis is filmed in the first “maquilized” city in the Americas...
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