Film Programme
This is a dream not of a common language, but of a powerful infidel heteroglossia

Terra Femme

2017–21 [62’]

• Original language: English
  
  

Filmmaker Courtney Stephens presents a selection of “home travelogues,” amateur films shot by women in the 1920s-40s. Intended to be screened for the friends and family of their makers, these films occupy a space between home movies and accidental ethnography. They present a new type of traveler: no longer a (typically male) seeker of conquests, she might be a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, or a widow on a chartered cruise to the North Pole. These optical autobiographies present the world through early female filmmaker’s eyes, while raising thorny questions about the politics of the gaze.