'Women on Film' revisits the history of movies as seen solely through the work of 100-plus female directors — and the 14-week showcase on TCM around it changes the conversation about filmmaking and gender
But don’t just take our word for it. Seeing is believing. And Mark Cousins has 14 hours worth of proof.
This was the exact question, it seems, that was haunting Cousins when he first started to envision the project. A Scottish critic, writer and documentarian, he’s long specialized in extending the history of the movies by elevating marginalized filmmakers and long-neglected regional movements.
“What I knew I,” he continues, “was that I didn’t want to make something about the industry, because it’s a given that the industry has been traditionally bad about the way it’s handled the issue. I didn’t want to make it about ‘the female gaze’ — you know, ‘is this sex scene different because a woman made it?’ Woman make all kinds of films, in all kinds of styles and manners, so it’s impossible to impose that kind of narrow parameter.
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