... of the 1970s, both the filmmaker and the women on-screen perform essentialism in the sense that, through ritual actions performed for celluloid, they conjure forth new queer worlds and try to make them endure — and, in some cases, they did. Greg Youmans is Scholar in Residence in the Beatrice Bain...

... that these women's performances played crucial roles in orchestrating transitions in industrial film form. Focusing on a comparison between the French Pathé and American Vitagraph companies, I examine the variety of techniques deployed to try to rationalize or contain the unruly bodily gestures of slapstick...

... was extremely interested in taking her challenge of trying to create a cinema of visual pleasure for women. And I tried very hard to think about what my own fantasies were, where they came from, why they were mine, how they could be coherently expressed in film. Although I tend to be analytical...

... which is quite different from the one found in most narrative, commercial films until now, and we try to encourage spectators to see this. We also do our best to support independent and experimental films which have a very limited public in France for the time being. Other...

... Was So Bad Maybe we can begin with that. PK: Fair enough. I think there was perhaps a negative implication when you said you had prepared yourself by trying to read some of my articles (laughter).To us that means you couldn’t stomach it, but I hope that is not the case. j-LG...

.... It would be a breath of fresh air. For me, it’s fun to try not to be shackled by my fears of the stereotypes. One reason why I resist theory is because theory seems to enslave the people who make it. They become prisoners of language, and get caught up in their words and will talk semantics...

..., among the guests. In this way, we record not only events that deal directly with Deren’s own work, but other aspects of how she lived her life, and perhaps why certain people appear in her films. We try to collect everything we can, and sift through to find those relics which...

... brought the Niagara cards as filler, just to try out the idea in the space. I was up on the ladder with a group of Niagara Falls cards and I realized that in the scale of the space, they were the only images that really held the wall. Up on this ladder, looking down the length of the room, I...

... out of my awarenessof the way I phrased and delineated for myself the dilemma ofdance as an art form. That 77 more than anything accounts for where my work went from 1965 on. It was this trying to find an alternative to - I have consistently used these words-narcissism, virtuosity...

... in the body that dance gives you. In Combines, I was trying to find an editing equivalent to that. I've jumped around. Your question is not something I've thought much about, particularly in comparison with other filmmakers. SM: Let me ask it in a different way. If somebody had walked up to you...

... players record com- plete playthroughs of video games]. We go back to the original 168  •  Camera Obscura text as much as possible. It is important to us to value audience interpretation while also presenting as clearly as we can what is actually represented in the game text. I try to be careful...

...”-or choose not to respond-in the afternoon. These talks and responses, which (with some changes) begin this volume, disturbed me. Especially the responses. I was comfortable enough with my own first-impulse position: “Of course men should try to do what they can for, or even ‘in’, feminism...

..., whatever form it eventually takes, rushes out of her with an explosive force, and trying to explain it can feel like trying to sculpt water. For the past eight years, July has been part of a broad com- munity of artists, musicians, and filmmakers in the Pacific North- west. Often working with very...

... of the information, and then you have an analysis of it because she’s trying to figure things out; she’s creating these fictions of “What are these adults doing “Where am I in this space “What is their relation to me “What does all this mean for me?” BM: Exactly. In the book that’s exactly what’s...

... to this tradition. What we must try to understand is the basis of this filiation, which is manifested by a certain formal unity in the broadest sense, in the functioning of the textual systems. (We should obviously, if we want a minimum of precision, qualify things here quite a bit. The first thing...

... zeal for citing John F. Kennedy’s ideas on citizenship as the major influence on her life and career. From the Nixon administration on, Republicans had been trying to distance NASA’s popularity from Kennedy’s popularity, 182 which had become perhaps inextricably bound through Kennedy’s...

.... . . . So I think we’re trying to find ways to create a collaboration that acknowledges that this dynamic is present and works with it. I want my films to embody the power of taking and finding voice, not the power of bestowing it.  —  ­V i c k y F u n a r i Maquilapolis (Mexico/US, 2006...

... photographer. But has this made you interested in continuing? Photographs are a challenge because they do not represent a per- formance. This makes it interesting because there is so much information that is eliminated, and I try to use that to the advan- tage of the piece. Well, you do...

...; it was a great revelation to us. 6 Our first idea of how to think about all these films was in terms of reconstructing, or rather constructing, a history of women’s films. This was a theoretical project only insofar as, at the same time, we were trying to develop a theory of women...

... only be that of how we play- wrights give a social stimulus to our audience (get them moving). To this end we should try out every conceivable artistic method which assiststhat end, whether it is old or new. Benoit Brecht The next...