Intersectional intergenerational and international perspectives on nonfiction filmmaking by
women generously illustrated with film stills and other images. This book offers
intersectional intergenerational and international perspectives on nonfiction film- and
videomaking by and about women examining practices that range from activist documentaries to
avant-garde experiments. Concentrating primarily on the period between the 1970s and 1990s the
contributions revisit major figures contexts and debates across a polycentric global
geography. They explore how the moving image has been a crucial terrain of feminist struggle—a
way of not only picturing the world but remaking it. The contributors consider key decolonial
filmmakers including Trinh T. Minh-ha and Sarah Maldoror explore collectively produced films
with ties to women’s liberation movements in different countries and investigate the cinematic
expressions of tensions and alliances between feminism and anti-imperialist struggles. They
grapple with the need for a broader more inclusive definition of the term feminism” meditate
on the figure of the grandmother reflect on realist aesthetics and ask what a feminist film
historiography might look like. The book generously illustrated with film stills and other
images many in color offers ten original texts two conversations and eight short essays
composed in response to historical texts written by filmmakers. The historical texts half of
which are published in English for the first time appear alongside the essays. Contributors
Helena Amiradżibi Madeleine Bernstorff Teresa Castro Counter Encounters (Laura Huertas
Millán Onyeka Igwe Rachael Rakes) Ayanna Dozier Forough Farrokhzad Safi Faye Devika
Girish Elena Gorfinkel Haneda Sumiko Shai Heredia Juliet Jacques Sarah Keller Nzingha
Kendall Julia Lesage Beatrice Loayza Janaína Oliveira Lakshmi Padmanabhan Yasmina Price
Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto Pooja Rangan Lis Rhodes Sara Saljoughi Rasha Salti Isabel Seguí
Chick Strand Monika Talarczyk Trinh T. Minh-ha Françoise Vergès Claudia von Alemann
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano Shilyh Warren Giovanna Zapperi
