Building on the success of the fifth addition, CinéWomen continues showcasing video practice from around the world. As the ultimate mirror – medium of our times, video is all about us. Despite the proliferation of the mainstream cinema, independent films continue to be made – radical, poetic and dreamlike films, who's directors work on the edge of the mainstream film industry, never restricting them self to any single field, yet inventing the eye and the mind to travel further. Cinema is no longer the monolithic system based on large capital investment: in the last decade the technical advances have dramatically change the economic conditions of cinema production. Revolutions arrive from obstinacy.
It is not by chance that today one of the protagonist of the digital revolution in cinema is a talented and courageous woman director, Ellie Schnieder, co-founder along with Joe Rubinstein of the digital Bolex Project, who after developing a cult-camera harking back to 16mm film aesthetic – a significant towards the demonstration of technology – is now promoting and an application process for a grant for producers employing women in their camera troupes. Only 8% of 2014 top-grossing films were directed by women: it's time to reverse this trend.
However, cinema is not only technology, but ideas, experimentation, and above all dialogue, networking, interaction. Creating and supporting a fertile ground for innovation and dialogue does not necessarily require compromise. Honoring the influence of women in video art and cinema, our womenartconnect.com editorial board is proud to present a selection of powerful and surreal visions from nine uncompromising outsiders.
In these pages you will encounter details on the new wave of filmmakers and video artist marching away from the Hollywood stereotype, with films like Customer Service by Aimee Graham; the visionary world of Karen Lima; Krusing America, an astonishing documentary by the talented Linda Kruse: the black atmospheres of Baby Sharks by Agathe Jobert and much more.
CineWomen Board
For the direct link to the article on Linda Kruse and KRUSING AMERICA visit
http://issuu.com/wacconnect/docs/cin_wom_iss015_cinema_art_dance_ecfc177e1fca6a/74
Official link to the entire CinéWomen Magazine
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