Konturen: Vol 12 (2022)

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    From Acting to Action: Delphine Seyrig, Les Insoumuses, and Feminist Video in 1970s France
    (University of Oregon, 2022) Zapperi, Giovanna
    Mostly known as one of the leading actresses in 1960s-1970s French cinema, Delphine Seyrig was also a media and a feminist activist working collaboratively within the framework of the women’s liberation movement. This article proposes to tackle Seyrig’s involvement in feminist video production the 1970s and explores the continuum she inhabited, from the auteur cinema in which she was actress and muse, to the disobedient practices in which she was video maker, actress and activist. Seyrig’s meditation on her work as an actress, as well as on the patriarchal structures sustaining the film industry, strongly resonates with recent debates prompted by the #metoo movement.
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    Julia Lesage: “I was never anything less than the person I am.” An Interview with the Author, Editor, and Filmmaker Julia Lesage
    (University of Oregon, 2022) Boos, Sonja
    Long recognized as a pioneer of experimental filmmaking and feminist documentary theory, Julia Lesage is the closest we have to a feminist film scholar-practitioner. This interview was conducted by Sonja Boos on 16 January, 2020.
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    Poetics of Cross-Cultural Relation: Critical Performances by Artists kate-hers RHEE and Patty Chang
    (University of Oregon, 2022) Lin, Jenny
    This article explores anti-racist, feminist performance and video art by kate-hers RHEE and Patty Chang. Parodic performances of awkward sexual encounters in works such as RHEE’s The Chocolate Kiss (2013) and Chang’s The Product Love (2009) embody and deconstruct identity formation within transnational German and Asian American contexts. I explore how RHEE and Chang distinctly challenge sexist and racist stereotypes and the objectification of Asian women, while problematizing cultural categorization through (mis)translations and poetic relations. The article illuminates how these artists complicate Asian American identities via variegated explorations of critical race theories and connected histories of cross-cultural representation.