Orla Smith and Ben Flanagan pick their four favourite competition short films at the 2019 London Film Festival.
Essays
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane gives form to society’s systemic sexism
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane explores systemic sexism by comparing and pairing stalker David Strine with a corrupt medical facility. This is an excerpt from our book, Beyond empowertainment
‘It is with love that I do this’: Cannibalism and power under patriarchy in Raw and We Are What We Are
In Raw and We Are What We Are, the cannibalism metaphor is used to explore what it is to be a woman living under patriarchy, in both the macro and the micro.
Thelma is more than just a modern Carrie
Thelma has been compared to Brian De Palma’s Carrie, but Trier gives his female lead agency whereas Carrie was simply a victim.
Personal Shopper conflates depression with technological obsession
In Personal Shopper, the boundary between Maureen and others is both because of technology and merely exacerbated by it.
Ep. 21: Feminist horror
Episode 21 celebrates our new ebook, Beyond empowertainment: Feminist horror and the struggle for female agency. In addition to discussing the films featured in the book, Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and Editor at Large Mary Angela Rowe talk about what feminist horror is, the strengths of the horror genre, and the book’s origins.