Logs
In keeping with the work I do curating and facilitating screenings and discussions, I enjoy thinking through film. These logs are an exercise in drawing together the books and articles I read, the errant thoughts that come from this research, and the films that help me understand how ideas might be formalised or narrativised.
hysteria
hysteria in the home
thinking about:
- home environments as one stimulus for, or representation of variously uncontrollable, unsociable, hysterical states
- conservatively feminine domestication
- mise-en-scene and cinematography foregrounding a sense of confinement
- the character of exchanges between groups of women
‿︵‿︵‿୨ ୧‿︵‿︵‿‿︵‿︵‿୨ ୧‿︵‿︵‿‿︵‿︵‿୨ ୧‿︵‿︵‿‿︵‿︵‿୨ ୧‿︵‿︵‿‿︵‿︵‿୨ ୧‿︵‿︵‿
- safe - 1995 - todd haynes
- if i had legs i’d kick you - 2025 - mary bronstein
- 3 women - 1977 - robert altman
- 8 women - 2002 - françois ozon
- the beguiled - 1971 - don siegel
- family life - 1971 - krzysztof zanussi
- possession - 1981 - andrzej źuławski