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Girl Asleep, Rosemary Myers

Gillie Collins / October 10, 2016

From stage to screen: Director Rosemary Myers on her new film Girl Asleep

Gillie Collins talked to director Rosemary Myers about adapting her Windmill theatre play Girl Asleep for the film. Collins also explores the many exaggerated, theatrical elements that define the film.

Royal Road, Jenni Olson

Gillie Collins / September 7, 2016

Writer-Director Jenni Olson on her film essay, The Royal Road

Jenni Olson on her 16mm film essay, The Royal Road, a story of unrequited love told through the linear progression of California’s El Camino road.

Julie Delpy, Lolo

Gillie Collins / March 14, 2016

Julie Delpy talks colour and comedy in Lolo

Writer-Director-Actress Julie Delpy discusses her consummately entertaining new movie, Lolo, which is chock full of the same joie de vivre Delpy channels in real life.

Fatima

Gillie Collins / March 9, 2016

Fatima is a tender look at making a home in a new land

Fatima meditates on language barriers and what it takes to become French.

Mustang

Gillie Collins / February 22, 2016

The politics of sisterhood in Mustang

Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s directorial debut, charts five sisters’ resistance, as they both grow into and reject a narrow notion of womanhood. But Ergüven privileges perspectives that a Western audience can understand and approve of, making the story too familiar and incomplete.

Fish Tank

Gillie Collins / February 8, 2016

Landscape and limbo in Fish Tank

In Fish Tank, physical boundaries stand for social boundaries — the constraints imposed by gender and class and the walls we build for self-protection

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