Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema (2000)

Documentary

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort to provide an alternative to the male filmmaking model; others, such as Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia) and Carine Adler (England), are relative newcomers to directing, and their approaches seem more personal and less political. The film as a whole manages to cover some important topics in the feminist debate about film -- how does one construct a female gaze, how can one film nude bodies without objectifying the actors (of either sex), what constitutes a strong female role -- while also making it clear that “women’s film” comprises as many different approaches to filmmaking as there are female filmmakers.

Director: Marie Mandy

Casts

	Agnès Varda as Self
	Sally Potter as Self
	Carine Adler as Self
	Catherine Breillat as Self
	Jeanne Labrune as Self
	Liliana Cavani as Self
	Francesca Comencini as Self
	Doris Dörrie as Self
	Deepa Mehta as Self
	Patricia Rozema as Self
	Paule Baillargeon as Self
	Léa Pool as Self
	Moufida Tlatli as Self
	Safi Faye as Self
	Jane Campion as Self

Crew