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• Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Izabela Pluckinska uses Claymation to portray an older couple as sexual beings in Sexy Laundry (2012). The couple has rented a hotel room in attempt to rekindle their physical...

• Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  When I show this film in my Feminism & Popular Culture classes, my students often comment upon how unusual it is to see older and unidealized naked bodies...

• Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Sam Decoste’s Mary & Myself from 2013 follows two Chinese Canadian women as they rehearse for a production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues¹³ where they are going to play...

• Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  The animation uses first person narration to tell not only the story of the performance but also to call attention to the history of “comfort women”. More historical information...

• Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  Albertine Zullo and David Toutevoix’s The Cannonball Woman (2017) is about Madeline, a woman who loves to fly through the air after being shot out of a cannon....

• Telling Women’s Stories: A Spotlight on NFB Animation

  She takes up a job as a bearded lady in a sideshow but eventually comes back to her partner. It would seem that she misses flying through the...

• A Formalism of Feeling: Queer Temporalities and Memory in PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

  The temporal structure takes us from the film’s present to the past of memory, or what theorist Gilles Deleuze calls “a sheet of the past.”¹ The opening credits are...

• A Formalism of Feeling: Queer Temporalities and Memory in PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

  The film’s slowness is essential to its nuanced development of desire over time, but the queer optics of this timeliness are challenged by Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover’s arguments around the queer potentials...

• A Formalism of Feeling: Queer Temporalities and Memory in PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

  As the dynamics between the women transform from an aching desire to becoming passionate lovers, the function of the film’s slow tempo and careful gaze begin to change....

• A Formalism of Feeling: Queer Temporalities and Memory in PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

  It is noteworthy that during Marianne’s final days, she is haunted by prophetic, images of Héloïse in her wedding dress. Occurring right before having sex with Héloïse for the first time, and...