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Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog (Part 2)
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Camera Obscura (1983) 4 (2 (11)): 132–145.
Published: 01 September 1983
...Marc Silberman © 1983 by Camera Obscura 1983
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Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog
(Part 2)
Marc Silberman
Since completing the first installment of this catalog in 1980, women
directors have released many new films in West Germany...
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Women Filmmakers in West Germany: A Catalog
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Camera Obscura (1980) 2 (3 (6)): 122–152.
Published: 01 December 1980
...Marc Silberman © 1980 by Camera Obscura 1980 Women Workmg
Women Filmmakers in West Germany:
A Catalog
Marc Silberman
Introduction 8. Cristina Perincioli
1. Claudia Alemann 9. Helga Reidemeister
2. Jutta Brueckner 10. ErikaRunge
3. Doris...
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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
...Scott MacKenzie; Anna Westerståhl Stenport Arnait Video Productions is one of the most aesthetically diverse feminist collectives in the world. Founded in 1991 in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, by Madeline Piujuq Ivalu and Marie-Hélène Cousineau as the first women's Inuit filmmaking collective, Arnait...
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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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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
...Hester Baer; Angelica Fenner In this conversation, which took place in Berlin, Germany, in August 2017, filmmaker Tatjana Turankskyj discusses recent developments in Pro Quote Film, the feminist initiative she cofounded with several other women filmmakers to promote gender parity in German film...
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Continuous Weave: Feminist Experimental Filmmaking Genealogies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 89–103.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Sarah Keller Abstract In the year before her death in 2019, Barbara Hammer gave footage from four incomplete projects as well as funds she had procured from the Wexner Center for the Arts to four fellow filmmakers to use as they wished. Her footage of a Guatemalan marketplace and women weaving...
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Queer/Palestinian Cinema: A Critical Conversation on Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (2 (80)): 135–143.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Strategies in Palestinian Queer and Women's Filmmaking” uniquely focused on questions of queerness and Palestine through a program of eight new Palestinian visual productions. The program brought together Palestinian film scholars, filmmakers, visual artists, and curators for a discussion of queer...
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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
...Olivia Khoo Singaporean filmmaker Sun Koh's short film Dirty Bitch ( Tu Nu [兔女], 2009) was inspired by a violently censored VHS copy of Claire Denis's Nénette et Boni (France, 1996) found by the director at the Singapore public library. While the film can be read as an homage to a well-known French...
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Retrospectives at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 159–169.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Janice Loreck; Sian Mitchell; Whitney Monaghan; Kirsten Stevens The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) is a four-day event in Melbourne, Australia, that supports and celebrates the work of Australian women filmmakers. Launched in 2017, the festival emerged from our desire as screen academics...
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Introduction: Late Hammer
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 84–87.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Patricia White Abstract This introduction to a dossier of short pieces on Barbara Hammer locates the work of the late filmmaker in the context of feminist film culture and the journal Camera Obscura . It briefly reviews several phases of the artist's career before focusing on the output of the last...
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Thoughts on Making Films with Barbara Hammer
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 129–135.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Lynne Sachs Abstract This personal essay articulates filmmaker Lynne Sachs's experiences working with experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Sachs conveys the journey of her relationship with Hammer when they were both artists living in San Francisco in the late 1980s and 1990s and then later...
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Toward a Feminist Fourth Cinema: Waru (2017)
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 63–87.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Leah Vonderheide Abstract This essay offers an analysis of Waru , an omnibus film written and directed by a sisterhood of nine Māori women, which illuminates a philosophy of Māori women's filmmaking and indicates new possibilities for a global Indigenous cinema. In the two decades since Māori...
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The World and the Soup: Historicizing Media Feminisms in Transnational Contexts
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (3 (72)): 111–151.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the contributions of women filmmakers and the influence of feminist thought might be registered within these paradigms, gender and feminist political analyses are not integral to their geographic and discursive rationales. Feminisms' historical roles in industrial, national, and transnational independent, art...
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Selling a Rebellion: The Industrial Logic of Mainstream Alt-Porn
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 29–61.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Jennifer Moorman The seemingly paradoxical phenomenon of mainstream alt-porn belies ostensible distinctions between industrial pornography and its alternatives. These corporate iterations of alt-porn—an initially grassroots, oppositional, community-based form of adult filmmaking—tend to interweave...
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The Mysteries of Voice: Love and Transnational Identification in Performing the Border, The Price of Sex , and Señorita extraviada
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 119–147.
Published: 01 September 2016
... describe their profound grief; and each filmmaker includes herself either in the frame or in the voice-over of the film—sometimes in both. Despite their distinct aesthetic investments, these three films share common thematic preoccupations with gender-based violence and filmically constructed justice...
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With Chantal in New York in the 1970s: An Interview with Babette Mangolte
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (1 (100)): 31–57.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Janet Bergstrom For this interview, cinematographer, photographer, and filmmaker Babette Mangolte agreed to focus on her collaborations as cinematographer with Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman on her 1970s New York films. Besides Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives, Mangolte brought in the art...
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Barbara Hammer and Queer|Art: Granting for the Future
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 137–139.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Vanessa Haroutunian Abstract This essay describes how the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant came into fruition, created by the pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer and administered through the New York City nonprofit organization Queer|Art. In 2017, Hammer...
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Let Them Wear Manolos: Fashion, Walter Benjamin, and Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
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Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (3 (78)): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that the filmmaker has come herself to represent. It is the modern rather than the historical qualities of the film that have captured the attention of most reviewers; but what, precisely, is “modern” about Marie Antoinette , and how is the film's modernity distinguishable from the labels of “postmodern...
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Evolving Narrative Structures Forge New Cine-Love at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... Film Festival, this article gestures to a waxing movement of independent filmmaking that is steadily eroding the hegemony of mainstream film culture. Films discussed include Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere and Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now? Significant shifts in the field of independent film...
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LUNAFEST on Campus
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 159–167.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Kelly Hankin In 2001, the Clif Bar and Company, makers of LUNA: The Whole Nutrition Bar for Women, debuted LUNAFEST, an international touring film festival that showcases short narrative and documentary work by female filmmakers. Since its inception, this festival has made significant inroads...
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