The Female Gaze

  • Larisa Shepitko – Krylya (Крылья) AKA Wings (1966)

    Larisa Shepitko1961-1970DramaThe Female GazeUSSR
    Krylya (1966)
    Krylya (1966)

    A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.Read More »

  • Marie Losier – The Touch Retouched (2002)

    Marie Losier2001-2010ExperimentalShort FilmThe Female GazeUSA
    The Touch Retouched (2002)
    The Touch Retouched (2002)

    In 1971, Ingmar Bergman made his first English-language film, THE TOUCH, starring ensemble regulars Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson, along with seventies everyman Elliott Gould. Thirty years later, Marie Losier decided to recast herself in Gould’s role, breathing new life into Bergman’s most maligned filmic endeavor.Read More »

  • Lynne Stopkewich – Kissed (1996)

    Drama1991-2000CanadaLynne StopkewichThe Female Gaze

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    Sandra Larson has always been fascinated by the entire sensory experience surrounding death: its touch, smell and look. As a child, she would search out dead animals and perform ritualistic burials. As a young woman, Sandra gets a job at Wallis Funeral Home, first as a general assistant, then progressing to study to become an embalmer. At the funeral home, she begins to take her fascination with death to the next level by becoming a necrophiliac. But she also begins her first ever relationship with Matt, a medical student, with who she is totally open about her necrophilia. He finds this aspect of her compelling. He becomes all consumed with her as she is consumed with dead people. The questions become how far he will take this fascination with her to understand fully what is going through her emotional being, how far she will allow him to go, and how far can her feelings for him extend as a live being.Read More »

  • Christine Laurent – Vertiges (1985)

    1981-1990Christine LaurentDramaFranceMusicalThe Female Gaze

    Life and loves of a theatre inside and outside the stage. The troup is playing Les noces de Figaro.Read More »

  • Cheryl Dunye – The Watermelon Woman (1996)

    1991-2000Cheryl DunyeComedyDramaThe Female GazeUSA

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    Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film project: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly who appeared in films in the 30s and was known as the Watermelon Woman. Following various leads, Cheryl discovers the Watermelon Woman’s stage name and real name and surmises that the actress had a long affair with Martha Page, a White woman and one of Hollywood’s few female directors. As she’s discovering these things, Cheryl becomes involved with Diana, who’s also White. The affair strains Cheryl’s friendship with Tamara. More discoveries bring Cheryl (and us, her audience) to new realizations.Read More »

  • Catherine Breillat – Une vraie jeune fille AKA A Real Young Girl (1976)

    Catherine Breillat1971-1980ArthouseDramaFranceThe Female Gaze

    Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents’ house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.Read More »

  • Sara Gómez – De cierta manera (1977) (HD)

    1971-1980CubaDramaSara GómezThe Female Gaze

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    Quasi documentary about the creation of the Miraflores housing development after the Cuban revolution. In this first Cuban feature film made by an Afro-Cuban and by a woman, Sara Gómez uses innovative documentary and fictional techniques to focus on the marginalised in the poorest, most underdeveloped areas of Cuba. Against a backdrop of dismantled slums and new housing construction, the relationship between a mulatta and a Black Cuban unfolds as a conflict between ingrown ideas of race, class and gender and a Revolution that is trying to dismantle the old, outmoded structures.Read More »

  • Nina Menkes – Queen of Diamonds (1991)

    Nina Menkes1991-2000ArthouseDramaThe Female GazeUSA

    Filmed on location in Las Vegas, QUEEN revolves around the life of an alienated blackjack dealer. Starring Tinka Menkes as the intense, damaged dealer, the film was named one of the Year’s Ten Best by the Los Angeles Times and Film Comment.

    “QUEEN OF DIAMONDS may become for America in the 90’s what JEANNE DIELMAN was for Europe in the 70’s—a cult classic using a rigorous visual composition to penetrate the innermost recesses of the soul.” –Berenice ReynaudRead More »

  • Doris Wishman – Double Agent 73 (1974)

    1971-1980ActionDoris WishmanEroticaThe Female GazeUSA

    Doris Wishman reteamed with Chesty Morgan, star of DEADLY WEAPONS and possessor of a much-touted 73-inch bust, for this spy thriller. This time around, Morgan plays Jane, a master secret agent who uses her eye-popping anatomy to help bring down a drug kingpin flooding the market with bad heroin. Among the outré set pieces: Chesty-as-Jane killing a man by seducing him with her poison-covered breasts.Read More »

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