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Just Doing It:
Women Documentary Makers and Social / Cultural Change
The single most welcome development in contemporary film-making,
whatever the genre, has been the steady rise of
exceptional women film-makers. If the numbers game still reflects a
startlingly uneven playing field, what is in no doubt is the
striking relevance and formal / aesthetic / thematic innovation
that these makers are bringing to their medium and chosen concerns.
Here, three leading international practitioners present their
work in the context of documentary film's exponential rise, spread
and relevance.
Emily James is a campaigning documentarist, whose acclaimed short
films have explored a wide range of key issues. Her recent
feature - Just Do It - tracking a benignly embedded year
with direction action climate campaigns - was released in July.
www.emily-james.com <http://www.emily-james.com/>
; www.justdoitfilm.com <http://www.justdoitfilm.com/>
Manu Luksch is an artist and digital-social activist. Her
CCTV-sourced feature 'Faceless', starring Tilda
Swinton, pioneered a found-footage radicalisation of urban
space. She has recently created 'function creep',
about waterways and utopian alternatives.
www.manuluksch.com <http://www.manuluksch.com/>
; www.ambienttv.net <http://www.ambienttv.net/>
; www.function-creep.com <http://www.function-creep.com/>
Andrea Luka Zimmermann was a founding member of media collective
Vision Machine. She has just completed 'Prisoner of War', a
disturbing feature about the costs of American militarism and
is developing 'Estate', a major project on inner-city public
housing.
www.fugitiveimages.org.uk <http://www.fugitiveimages.org.uk/>
Gareth Evans is a writer, editor and curator.