#Women In Cinema

[marvelsgirl616]

hen / athena / carla icons || they’re so god damn fine

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2024.01.04

Da'Vine Joy Randolph wearing a custom Jovana Louis gown. She won the Breakthrough Performance Award for her role in The Holdovers at the Palm Springs International Film Festival!

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[disarmluna]

[starsfromanothersky]

Vimi in Hamraaz, B R Chopra, 1967

[rkivesthings]

mother's day to the women in cinema who shaped me

[earhartsease]

one of our favourite youtube channels is watching Kurtis from Cutting Edge Engineering in Queensland autistically machining stuff for hours (we have a big machinery hum asmr thing)

but also we have some really nice comment interactions with his wife Karen who does the camera and editing (and occasional cameo giggling in the outtakes, which is mostly Kurtis saying fuck) because she's got a really good eye for the aesthetics of metal machining, and by now she knows how much we appreciate her side of the work - like slowmo shots of swarf (aka chips) coming off a tool and colouring up with temper heat, or random tango twitching of fine swarf during a hole milling operation)

anyway in amongst all the engineering blokey comments we may be the only person appreciating her cinematography out loud so go her and go us for caring

also they're friends with some aussie magpies and that doesn't suck either (plus Homey the dog, we're not really dog fans but he's cute)

[womeninfictionandirl]

Julie Andrews by Allison Adams

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[importantwomensbirthdays]

Chloé Zhao

Director and writer Chloé Zhao was born in 1982 in Beijing, China. Zhao is best known for the 2020 film Nomadland, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and earned Zhao the Academy Award for Best Director. Her first feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, was nominated for a Caméra d'Or Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Zhao's movie The Rider was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards and was named the Best Film of 2018 by the National Society of Film Critics.

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Never in a billion years would I have been able to predict that this Lana Del Rey coquette soft girl Tumblr classic that I really only knew in gifs and screenshots was actually a Czech anti-communist feminist masterpiece written and directed by a woman! Huhh!! This flick has been on my list since the golden years of Tumblr and I finally sat down tonight maybe 10 years after I first glanced these cuties in flower crowns with tags like #sweetbabyangel #lovergirl #softaesthetic etc. and my guesses were this was probably some French exploitation flick with some artfully shot nude scenes of barely legal models dancing in fields and painting their nipples purple. But no. This female director said fuck the bourgeoise and let these little demons run wild. And there is not a moment where I felt they were being ogled or exploited. In their moments of nudity or sexuality, the camera sat still and the characters held the power.

Beautiful. I loved it. Might be one of my favorite films I've ever seen and that really just.. God I was expecting it to be so pretentious and annoying! Yay! Joy bitch joy!

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Madeline Hurlock (December 12, 1897 – April 4, 1989) was a silent film actress.

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Ella Purnell as Lucy in Fallout Season 1. Episode 1. “The End”

[lowpolywizard]

Shitfit #1 - Lack of female voices in ARGs/unfiction/online horror series

I watched this documentary yesterday, which I highly recommend if you’re interested in these topics. Anyways, one thing I noticed that really irked me is the lack of female creators in the horror space online. I was talking to someone on Reddit after I posted there asking about female creator recommendations, and while yes, I agreed with them that gender doesn’t matter when a created product is good, that doesn’t change the fact that I feel underrepresented. This isn’t just a YouTube problem, it’s a problem in the entire horror genre. In my research on horror, I found this article on women in cinematic horror. While I do think a lot of the problems with the lack of diverse voices in online horror overlap with cinematic horror, I still have a feeling that it still doesn’t line up. The Internet is much more accessible. In the documentary mentioned above, it is said that the over-saturation of analog horror is because of how easy it is to make. Anyone with an iPhone can make something. I ask then, where are my ladies at? Surely not every woman interested in horror is as lame as me and simply lacks motivation and self-discipline. I only need one hand to count online horror creators I know of that are women. I thought that was my fault, I used to be really bad for only consuming content made by men for internal misogynistic reasons, but I’ve outgrown that. I am actively looking for female creators! When I asked Reddit, I got null. Not even other members of the community can think of any. Now I do know that this is partially caused by the anonymity usually involved in ARG/unfiction/online horror. The creators usually pretend they’re a character who’s “found a tape” or whatever. But come on. I’m going crazy here and don’t know what to do about it.

Now I know what you’re thinking. “Well, you said that you don’t care who makes someone as long as the product is good!” This is true. I don’t really know how to explain the yearning I feel. The creator and their identity do influence the content. Women’s roles in online horror are usually reduced to acting, which is fine! Acting is super cool and I have seen some really good voice acting in horror series, but that’s the same problem cinematic horror has. We get a lot of horror movies about women but directed by men. LAME! Yawn. There are things about women that I feel could make bomb-ass horror content. For example, a lot of analog horror is about the horror of your reality being undermined, which like 99% of the time is represented by the government lying to you or an evil force using the TV to subliminally influence you. Bestie that actually happens! Go watch a cleaning product commercial compilation and the lead role in that commercial is going to be a woman, because cleaning is all we do, apparently. Shit like that is everywhere. Look at ads for make-up in any time period. Woman’s issues and the shit forced upon them are so underutilized in the online horror community. The fact that it’s a “funny joke” online right now to comment on the colour of a woman’s clit? That you can find comments like that on posts of newborns or little girls? That we’re powerless to stop it and it will continue no matter what we want? That’s pretty scary! If you think I have gotten away from my original point, you’re wrong. What I am saying is that there are many underutilized real horrors to be inspired from, and it would be nice to see issues I and other women face in online horror, and more female creators in general. This post is only touching the surface of under-representation in online horror, there sadly is not a lot of diversity. 

If you have any recommendations, give me them. If you are hesitant about creating online horror, don’t be. I will eat that shit up! Thanks.

[chloe-seviche]

[starsfromanothersky]

Vimi in Hamraaz, B R Chopra, 1967

[rkivesthings]

mother's day to the women in cinema who shaped me (part 2)