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Corinn Columpar Sophie Mayer Remember   Corinn Columpar   and  Sophie Mayer 's book, There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking & Beyond , back in 2009?  Corinn followed There She Goes with Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film  (2010) and Sophie wrote Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015) (WW interview here ) as well as The Cinema of Sally Potter: The Politics of Love . I love their activist writing and editing work about #womeninfilm, with its emphasis on intersectionality and rigour and its love of women's onscreen stories. Sophie-as-interlocutor in one of her many activist roles Now Corinn and Sophie are back together for a new collection,  Mothers of Invention: Parenting and/as Filmmaking Practice ! And they're calling for contributions. This is how they explain the ideas behind  Mothers of Invention  and what they're looking for– In 1983, E. Ann Kaplan famously called second-wave feminist film cultu...

Ariel Dougherty Interview by  Alexandra Hidalgo You have a long history of making films and supporting women filmmakers, what made you interested in the intersections between the moving image and feminism? It was the spring of 1969. I was with 100 college-mates in the middle of an eleven day sit-in in our college administration building, when a recent graduate brought several films from Community Newsreel. One of the films was  Make Out , but another of the films really got to me. A woman was ironing. Suddenly I started to see the preconceived roles we women were expected to fulfill. They were vastly different from my own ideas of myself. Already I was teaching kids filmmaking. I began to see that I could tell our own stories on film. If today it is unusual to be a woman behind the camera, back in the 1970s when you were a pioneer feminist filmmaker, it was outright revolutionary for you to pick up a camera. Can you tell us what made you want to do so and wha...