MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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MARIA DUARTE is intrigued by a documentary essay that exposes the way patriarchy and sexism is baked into US cinema
SEXISM: Quentin Tarantino (director) and Margot Robbie (actress) in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (18)
Directed by Nina Menkes
THE concept of “the male gaze” was first coined by film theorist Laura Mulvey in 1975, but film-maker Nina Menkes attempts to deconstruct it and demonstrate how it has perpetuated sexism and the objectification of women in a film which will make you see this medium in a whole new light.
Menkes’s incisive documentary explores how the visual language of cinema has contributed to employment discrimination, pay inequality and an environment of sexual harassment and abuse in the industry and in society.
Based on Menkes’s cinematic presentation “Sex and Power, the Visual Language of Cinema” this shows how differently men and women are filmed and the techniques that are used such as the framing, the camera movement, the lighting and the sound to discriminate between them subliminably.
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