Including essays about Barbara Hammer, Agnès Varda, Camille Billops, Jane Arden, Penny Slinger, Ana Mendieta, Hito Steyerl, Mati Diop, Catherine Breillat, Carol Morley, Ulrike Ottinger, Charlotte Prodger, Charlotte Pryce, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Gloria Camiruaga, Margarethe von Trotta, Astra Taylor, Lina Wertmüller,
Interviews with Akosua Adoma Owusu, Astra Taylor, Ericka Beckman, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer.
Reviews on films by Claire Denis, Angela Schanelec, Lila Avilés, Dominga Sotomayor, Lee Chang-Dong
Writing on the lesbian hand; the problem with 'relatability' and 'unlikeability'; 'Skam''s fan subtitles; grieving through cinema; reclaiming silence; femme, butch and in-between; underwater cinema; political militancy on-screen; Ingeborg Bachmann’s 'Malina'; prostitution and capitalist modernity; yonic imagery; a forgotten multiracial feminist video collective; sexual violence on-screen
A series of fantastic, feminist, deeply human essays. I particularly enjoyed the essays on Agnes Varda, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer, Rebecca Lui’s provoking (though critical and emotionally intense) “The Making of a Millennial Woman”, Hannah Paveck’s review of “High Life”, and David Lee Astlsy’s “Glimpses of Her; Grieving through Cinema.” This is a magazine you can (try to) read all at once, but it’s best to meditate through it, savoring each essay one at a time. A great coffee table book and one that provides great discussions.