Women with a Movie Camera

September 9, 2015 3:00 PM

How does it blinker our perception of cinema’s history when picture after gorgeous monochrome picture of elaborate movie sets have as their focus a white male director? As part of Sight & Sound magazine's Female Gaze issue, Isabel Stevens has compiled a collection of images of women directors at work.
posted by Awkward Philip (8 comments total)

Mod note: Folks, try reading the article before disagreeing with its premise.
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 4:26 PM on September 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

Excellent, thank you.
posted by dng at 4:32 PM on September 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

This is great! Oh, and next time someone asks who I was in a former life, I am going to claim Ida Lupino. Except, you know, she died when I was past 30. But still...
posted by Thella at 5:14 PM on September 9, 2015

Great pictures. Like to see a few more contemporary directors represented but nice to see so much history.
posted by octothorpe at 5:26 PM on September 9, 2015

The "You Must Remember This" episode on Ida Lupino is fascinating - "star cum director" just scratches the surface.
posted by reedbird_hill at 5:54 PM on September 9, 2015 [1 favorite]

Gee, no Joan Rivers?
posted by Ideefixe at 5:56 PM on September 9, 2015

I am really glad that I saw this -- I hope that these pictures help me imagine women, instead of just men, when I call up the mental image of "a director".
posted by brainwane at 6:48 AM on September 10, 2015

What, no Mai Zetterling? Bah!
posted by On the Corner at 12:23 AM on September 11, 2015