Pieces

Water Lilies: Sexuality, Unrequited Love and the Importance of Friendship

Céline Sciamma’s impressive debut film, Water Lilies, paints a realistic portrait of adolescent lust which tackles subjects of body...

Mythical Puberty and the Discotheque: Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Lure

Premiered in Poland, and screened at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, The Lure is the story of two mermaid sisters exploring the human...

Of Lights and Houses: Maria Saakyan’s The Lighthouse

Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunter is home from the hill. — Robert Louis Stevenson, writer and lighthouse engineer....

RE-INVENTION, RE-INTRODUCTION, AND GIVING A CULTURAL FACE TO OLDER WOMEN

The previous essay looked at Fonda’s star image and feminism through her performances in three different films, playing three different...

Taking up space: The radical aesthetics of the women-made, DIY music vid ‘New Song’ by Warpaint (Dir

Following the success of the band’s 2014 album Warpaint, Heads Up surfaced following the solo ventures of each band member and represents...

WOMAN ALIVE: FEMINISM, SEX, AND TRUTH

The previous essay focussed on Jane Fonda’s two Oscar speeches, using them as frames to consider her political engagement with a view to...

SPEAKING OUT AND BEING HEARD: POLITICAL ACTIVISM, OSCAR SPEECHES, AND POLITICAL POLARISATION

Jane Fonda is a compelling and complex figure. She is 80 this year, on 21st December, and I am interested in looking at her life and...

Interpreting the Archive, Interpreting Oneself: The Host by Miranda Pennell

The Host is the latest film by Miranda Pennell in which she explores her family history and the history of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company,...

LFF 2017: Part 1

As detailed in Little White Lies’ wonderfully comprehensive list, this year’s LFF programme showcased 112 feature and short films...

San Sebastián International Film Festival - New Directors: Killing Jesus

Colombian director Laura Mora has presented her first feature film Matar a Jesús (Killing Jesus) as part of the Festival’s New Directors...

San Sebastián International Film Festival - Official Selection: Alanis

Anahí Berneri’s fifth and third film competing in San Sebastián follows a young prostitute, mother of a one-year-old boy who gets kicked...

The Watermelon Woman: Cheryl Dunye’s Disruptive Cinematics

Cheryl Dunye is a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and actor. She is Black and identifies as a lesbian. Dunye became...

Liliane Lijn’s Fragments of Memories and The Fragmented Body

I am not simply using fragments of my body as containers for memory but these fragments transform in my imagination to become parts of...

documenta 14: Learning from Women

documenta 14 is the 14th edition of the quinquennial art exhibition held in Kassel. Founded by Arnold Bold in 1955 to help reignite...

Shakesqueer Adapted: The Bard as a Force of Change in 'Were the World Mine' (2008)

The history of Shakespeare adaptation for the screen is long and diverse. It has crossed spatial, lingual and generic boundaries. Were...