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Accepted Paper:
Women Make Movies: Kim Longinotto and her contribution to a female perspective
Susanne Hammacher
(Übersee-Museum Bremen)
Paper short abstract:
Kim Longinotto’ internationally acclaimed documentaries are well recognised within ethnographic film festival circles. From a distributor’s perspective we like to position the impact of her documentaries within visual anthropology and compare with feedbacks from women’s filmmaker networks such as Woman Make Movies.
Paper long abstract:
Kim Longinotto' internationally acclaimed documentaries are well recognised in anthropological circles, are regularly screened at ethnographic film festivals and used in teaching. All but one of her last 14 documentaries take a female perspective, portraying women and addressing topics such as FGM, domestic abuse, divorce or woman's rights with sensitivity and compassion. Using interviews with the filmmaker and citations of her films this contribution will analyse her approach to her female subjects and her practice. From a distributor's perspective we like to position the impact of her documentaries within visual anthropology and compare with feedbacks from women's filmmaker networks such as Woman Make Movies.