Female Gaze
One of the comments that the filmmakers received about this film was a compliment on not having made ‘just another feminist movie’. It is ironic though , because the film is informed by precisely the kind of sexual politics that tries to understand women not “just” in feminine but feminist terms.
The documentary is an investigation of the nature of female perception across generations and cultural backgrounds. In the process we have women speak of their experience of the public/private dichotomy and the gendered nature of these spaces, various women’s understanding of vulnerability and strength, and how the social gender politics influence the same. The movie also looks at women’s opinions and experiences of same-sex relationships, as well as the pressures of societally defined notions of beauty which both operate through and reinforce existing power structures.
‘Female Gaze’ is an attempt at understanding a gendered world from the perspective of women, working towards creating a space for the Female Gaze opposed to and beyond the dominant, omnipresent and questionably omnipotent male gaze that we all too often encounter and endorse.
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