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The Spectacle of Power: Ken Russell's THE DEVILS (1971)
Another earlier scene, Jeanne of the Angels is tortured publicly in the name of cleansing her spirit, and a crowd wearing black masks watches. This masked audience echoes...
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PORTABLE CLOSETS by Kyle Alden Martens
Every individual/collective is welcome to participate. The rules are not set in stone, but rather in the turtlenecks. With turtlenecks the players will move forward as instructed by one...
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Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces
The rise of the female perspective in Western film with the pioneer woman trope intended to work against idealized portrayals of settlement life often found in art made...
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Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces
Three decades later, Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff approaches the open landscape in a markedly different way, upending classic Western film tropes in the story of a group of American...
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Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces
The defining moment in Meek’s Cutoff occurs when Emily Tetherow (Michelle Williams) holds a loaded gun to the group’s shifty guide to protect a character they simply call “the...
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Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces
If Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff probes new ground for female agency, Coralie Fargeat’s 2017 film Revenge rips it apart into a female-centred redemption tale. A French film that premiered at...
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Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces
The use of rape as a character motivator in the film, where the character experiences violent sexual trauma to find power can be seen as problematic, a gender...
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Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces
The landscapes in Ice Blue run cool, with brown, blue, and light yellow tones, and when there is blood on screen, it’s a small trickle on the skin....
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Uncertain Frontiers: Female Identity and Rural Spaces
Ultimately, the film tells a coming of age story that is also a rebuke of rural life, where the farm is a source of violence and repression, while...
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Kristen Hutchinson
*Kristen Hutchinson* (they/she) is a queer and gender-fluid visual artist, cultural critic, curator, writer, editor, and adjunct professor of art history, feminism, media studies, and popular culture. They received...