Screening Women Filmmakers

Introduction: On Platforming Cinema’s Women Filmmakers
Shelley Cobb, Dijana Jelača, and Maria San Filippo

1. The Consequences of Feminism (Les Résultats du féminisme, Alice Guy-Blaché, 1906, France)
Aurore Spiers

2. Where Are My Children? (Lois Weber, 1916, US)
Shelley Stamp

3. The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West (关武帝, Marion E. Wong, 1916, US)
Zhen Zhang

4. Salomé (Alla Nazimova, 1922, US)
Laura Copier

5. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, Lotte Reiniger, 1926, Germany)
Anjeana K. Hans

6. K.Sh.E. (Esfir Shub, 1932, USSR)
Lilya Kaganovsky

7. Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940, US)
Marsha Gordon

8. At Land (Maya Deren, 1944, US)
Sarah Keller

9. The Last Stage (Ostatni etap, Wanda Jakubowska, 1948, Poland)
Elżbieta Ostrowska

10. Girls of the Night (Onna bakari no yoru, Tanaka Kinuyo, 1961, Japan)
Irene González-López

11. The Connection (Shirley Clarke, 1961, US)
Jaimie Baron

12. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May, 1972, US)
Aaron Hunter

13. Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1972, Angola/France)
Zama Dube

14. The Last Word (Последната дума, Binka Zhelyazkova, 1973, Bulgaria)
Dina Iordanova

15. Terminal Island (Stephanie Rothman, 1973, US)
Alicia Kozma

16. Not a Pretty Picture (Martha Coolidge, 1975, US)
Maya Montañez Smukler

17. News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976, France/Belgium)
Alisa Lebow

18. One Way or Another (De cierta manera, Sara Gómez, 1977, Cuba)
Marina Cavalcanti Tedesco

19. One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (L'une chante, l'autre pas, Agnès Varda, 1977, France)
K.J. Relth-Miller

20. Thriller (Sally Potter, 1979, UK)
Shelley Cobb

21. A Question of Silence (De Stilte rond Christine M., Marleen Gorris, 1982, Netherlands)
Maryn Wilkinson

22. Illusions (Julie Dash, 1982, US)
Christina N. Baker

23. Leila and the Wolves (Leila wa al ziap, Heiny Srour, 1984, Lebanon)
Maria Abdel Karim

24. Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983, US)
Martha Shearer

25. Hour of the Star (A Hora da Estrela, Suzana Amaral, 1985, Brazil)
Bruno Guaraná

26. Sacrificed Youth (青春祭 [Qing chun ji`], Zhang Nuanxin, 1985, China)
Lingzhen Wang

27. Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988, New Zealand)
Leah Vonderheide

28. Shag (Zelda Barron, 1988, US/UK)
Vernon Shetley

29. My Twentieth Century (Az én XX. Századom, Ildikó Enyedi, 1989, Hungary)
Meta Mazaj

30. Surname Viet, Given Name Nam (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1989, US)
Jocelyn E. Marshall

31. A Door to the Sky (Farida Benlyazid, 1989, Morocco)
Florence Martin

32. Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair, 1991, US/UK)
Bidisha Banerjee

33. I Can’t Sleep (J’ai pas sommeil, Claire Denis, 1994, France)
Iggy Cortez

34. Bound (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, 1996, US)
Caél M. Keegan

35. High Art (Lisa Cholodenko, 1998, Canada/US)
Maria San Filippo

36. Traps (Pasti, pasti, pasticky, Věra Chytilová, 1998, Czech Republic)
Ewa Mazierska

37. Take Care of My Cat (고양이를 부탁해 / Goyangireul Butakhae, Jeong Jae-eun, 2001, South Korea)
Jinhee Choi

38. Matilda Tone (Moira Tierney, 2004 Ireland/US)
Masha Godovannaya

39. Madeinusa (Claudia Llosa, 2006, Peru/Spain)
Maria Chiara D'Argenio

40. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006, France/US/Japan)
Mary Harrod

41. XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007, Argentina/Spain/France)
Deborah Shaw

42. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012, Canada)
Tanya Horeck and Neil Henderson

43. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014, US/Iran)
Farzaneh Ebrahimzadeh Holasu

44. N-Able (N-Capace, Eleonora Danco, 2014, Italy)
Laura Di Bianco

45. American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016, UK/US)
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz

46. Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven, Issa López, 2017, Mexico)
Valeria Villegas Lindvall

47. Atlantics (Atlantique, Mati Diop, 2019, France/Senegal/Belgium)
Farrah Freibert

48. Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval, 2019, Philippines/US)
Jasmine Nadua Trice

49. In Vitro (Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, 2019, Palestine)
Kristin Lené Hole

50. Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019, US)
Helen Warner

51. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn, 2019, Canada)
Missy Molloy

52. Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić, 2020, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Dijana Jelača

53. Titane (Julia Ducournau, 2021, France)
Jasper Lauderdale

54. Alcarràs (Carla Simón, 2022, Italy/Spain)
Jara Fernández Meneses

55. 1976 (Manuela Martelli, 2022, Chile/Argentina)
Berenike Jung

56. Sweet As (Jub Clerc, 2022, Australia)
Claire Henry

57. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024, France/India)
Patricia White

58. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni, 2024, UK/Zambia)
Lizelle Bisschoff

Biography

Shelley Cobb is Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies at the University of Southampton. Shelley is the author of Adaptation, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (2014).

Dijana Jelača is a Lecturer in the Film Department at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Jelača is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (2016) and co-author of Film Feminisms: A Global Introduction (2019).

Maria San Filippo is Professor in the School of Film, Television, & Media Arts at Emerson College. She most recently authored Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media (2021), and the Queer Film Classics volume Appropriate Behavior (2022).

"Once upon a time, few observers believed that women had much to do with the history of cinema. The editors of Screening Women Filmmakers put that lie to rest, with a brilliant anthology of 58 essays on women's films from different time periods and different regions of the world, demonstrating the vitality and range of women's cinema."

- Judith Mayne, Emerita Professor of French, The Ohio State University, USA

"Screening Women Filmmakers is an extraordinarily rich collection. Celebrating the range and diversity of women’s filmmaking throughout cinema history and from across the world, it attests too to the many ways in which their work can be studied. It will be invaluable to scholars, teachers and students of film."

- Sue Thornham, Emeritus Professor of Film and Media, University of Sussex, UK