Tag: gender

What is the purpose of Art without transgression? ARACHNY in the UK - Salem Kapsaski's SPIDARLINGS (2016)

I first got to know Salem in 2006 when we discussed the writings of Andrea Dworkin and Emma Goldman in an online group. We started to correspond in private, exchanged our writings and ideas and finally met in person, when...

Rotterdam 2014 Review: JACKY IN THE KINGDOM OF WOMEN Is Absurd, Rude And Very Funny

(Just imagine: what if Charlotte Gainsbourg had played a nymphomaniac in THIS film..!) One of the prizes to be won at the international Film Festival Rotterdam is the MovieZone Award, aimed at films which impressed the younger part of the...

The Gender War Wages On in the Trailer for SOME VELVET MORNING

It has been a while Neil Labute stormed onto the arthouse film scene with the one-two punch of In The Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors in the mid 1990s. After those two exceptional films, it felt that...