Konturen: Vol 12 (2022)
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Item Open Access Lucy Reynolds, Women Artists, Feminism, and the Moving Image. Bloomsbury, 2019Jillian(University of Oregon, 2022) Vasko, JillianReview Essay.Item Open Access Genevieve Yue, Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality. Fordham University Press, 2020.(University of Oregon, 2022) Pek, Ying SzeReview Essay.Item Open Access Poetics of Cross-Cultural Relation: Critical Performances by Artists kate-hers RHEE and Patty Chang(University of Oregon, 2022) Lin, JennyThis 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.Item Open Access Film Spaces, Memory Traces: The Family House in Recha Jungman’s Etwas tut weh (1979)(University of Oregon, 2022) Brauerhoch, AnnetteIn 2016 Recha Jungmann’s film Etwas tut weh (Something Hurts, 1976) was rediscovered and restored. Jungmann, alongside with Ula Stöckl, was one of the few women graduates of the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, where Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge taught. In Etwas tut weh she revisits her family’s former estate which is now a ruin, abandoned and vandalized. This article explores how memory work and camera work unite to create spaces in which her family finds a (new) aesthetic home, and in which the film as a form of remembrance creates solidarity with the audience in the cinema -- a space that can give a home to films and spectators alike.Item Open Access The Aesthetic Hyper-Object in Experimental Short Film Practices: Lina Sieckmann and Miriam Gossing’s Art Documentaries(University of Oregon, 2022) Ostmeier, DorotheeShort experimental films by the German female director duo Lina Sieckmann und Miriam Gossing put domestic environments on cinematic display in new and challenging ways. The essay discusses the links between the films’ documentary agendas, surreal visual montages, and poetic feminine voice-overs. Selected films are placed into dialogues with Michael Renov’s concept of aesthetics in documentary film and Timothy Morton’s notion of the “hyperobject.” This theoretical framework highlights the tensions between the films’ powerful aesthetics and feminine queer desire as they decenter socially ingrained dualisms.Item Open Access From Acting to Action: Delphine Seyrig, Les Insoumuses, and Feminist Video in 1970s France(University of Oregon, 2022) Zapperi, GiovannaMostly 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.Item Open Access 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, SonjaLong 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.Item Open Access Feminism, Theory, Film: Critical Intersections in the Practice and Theorization of Experimental Filmmaking since the 1970s (Introduction)(University of Oregon, 2020) Boos, SonjaIntroduction to Volume 12 of Konturen.