Dir. Nina Menkes
2023 | 107 mins | United States

SHOWING TIMES:

• Sat 20 May: 2pm
• Mon 22 May: 8pm
• Tue 23 May: 8pm

You may never look at film the same way again after watching this illuminating journey, which deconstructs the male gaze in cinema.

Building upon her influential talk ‘Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Cinema’ and making use of feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey’s landmark thesis, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Nina Menkes documentary digs deep, drawing on excerpts from over 175 films from 1896 – 2020 to prove her point. Featuring interviews with filmmakers, including Julie Dash and Joey Soloway, as well as actors and film professionals, this is a clear, brilliantly argued and urgent plunge into cinema’s history that is guaranteed to spark countless conversations.

TRIPLE F-RATED:

Directed by a woman, written by a woman and starring a significant woman.

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VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

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