Category Archive for: ‘Issue 13 – First Release’

Women, Autobiography and New Media There is a growing literature which deals with the putative “death of the journal”[1] , with the increasing cost of print based journals for individual subscribers and libraries, with the possibility of new forms of document distribution online, and with the perils and costs of such publication [2] . Harnad argues for a system in which …

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Then you say that I’m always searching for my mother in my father’s cinema, but it’s a lonely experience. Just phantoms on a screen. [1] I In Australian independent cinema over the last three decades, Jeni Thornley is the filmmaker whose autobiographical project has been to articulate feminism as a historical crisis of female subjectivity. [2] As a …

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Forgetting the catastrophe At the close of a century marked both by large-scale human disaster and the technical capacity to immediately document such events, the 1990s saw a swell of reflection on the meaning of these collective traumata, their analogue or digital documentation and the repercussions of such documentation on the perception of individual viewers. While …

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Oppositions that once drove passionate debates during the heady, early days of feminist film theorizing and production have attenuated significantly in the past fifteen years. Feminism as a whole has witnessed some remarkable shifts, perhaps the biggest of which has been the discovery that not all women are white, heterosexual, and middle-class. In the area of …

Uploaded 9 January 2002 Introduction Photographs, along with theatre schema, books, trompe l’oeil paintings, and maps have served as memory technologies that draw on visual and spatial systems. These technologies function as repositories for memory, a place where the past is deposited and later retrieved. If as Ada Lovelace envisaged, the computer is in essence a memory technology, multimedia as an …

Interviews with Sarah Jane Lapp, Michele Fleming, and Amie Siegel Uploaded 1 December 2001 In 1997 I interviewed my grandmother, Belle Ginsburg, about her mother Sadie (Zelda) Ginsburg. I was making a film entitled The Whole History of That, examining the failures and desires which accompanied my search for roots in Central Europe. At the end of our interview, having told …

Uploaded 1 December 2001 A young black woman sits in her bedroom adjusting the video camera which she has balanced on her bed in front of her. “I’m literally whispering now ’cause the walls in my house have ears” she says into her hand-held mike. “This is quite private. It’s quite personal, ’cause I don’t really talk to anyone about …

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Introduction Autobiographical videos by American women of the late twentieth century contribute to cultural archives that include “public” explorations of “private” spheres. These independently produced experiments often establish links between print and electronic media, adapting various forms of unpublished and published texts. In the crossover to video exhibition, the writing undergoes strategic transformations. Frequently drawing on …

Uploaded 1 December 2001 | Modified 11 January 2002 I. The Projectionist’s Window There were years when I went to the cinema almost every day and maybe even twice a day, and those were the years between ’36 and the war, the years of my adolescence. It was a time when the cinema became the world for me. A different …