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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...

lisa gornick i am singing on a large stage Lisa Gornick’s seduced me again-- When I saw this drawing, I thought There’s Me! Thin and Alone and Exposed and Worried about my Voice and my Song! There’s the outcome of This-Harshest-Winter-Ever at Our Place! And then I laughed. Settle Down, Drama Queen! There are Freesias on the Kitchen Table! Put down your Tiny Violin! & Step Up! Lisa's drawing’s inspired me to round up this week’s news about New Zealand’s women directors. They're pretty special. First, Kathy Dudding . At the New Zealand Film Archive there’s a series of evenings commemorating her death a year ago and celebrating her life and work. Wednesday’s, which I missed, was called Bathe in The Light of the Pale Blue Moon. Still to come, this evening and tomorrow, screenings of Asylum Pieces , Kathy's final film, which I found very moving. Still from Kathy Dudding's Asylum Pieces Then, Gaylene Preston . Mary Wiles at Canterbury University, ...