‘Joined together there is power, sister’: Re-viewing feminist work from the London Film-makers’ Co-operative

Sophie Mayer; Selina Robertson

doi:10.14591/aniki.v4n1.287

Sophie Mayer Independent Scholar
Selina Robertson University of London, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v4n1.287

Resumen

The 'From Reel to Real' season of programmes, the first retrospective of women filmmakers' work from the London Film-makers' Co-operative, curated by Maud Jacquin with Tate Modern and LUX, bring together three generations of filmmakers, and highlight the transmission of a political aesthetics that is both theoretically-informed and embodied.

Biografía del autor/a

Sophie Mayer, Independent Scholar

Dr. Sophie Mayer is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris, 2015) and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (Wallflower, 2009). She is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound, and works with queer feminist film curators Club des Femmes, and with Raising Films, a campaign and community for parents and carers in the UK film & TV industry.

Selina Robertson, University of London, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX

Selina Robertson is a freelance film curator, events producer and writer. She co-founded Club des Femmes, a queer feminist curating collective in 2007. She is a PhD doctoral student in the Film, Media and Cultural Studies Department, Birkbeck.