The Tender Force of Valérie Massadian Maura Edmond and John Edmond March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care This project began in Melbourne’s Princes Park. Margot, Maura’s daughter, was ambling about in the sunshine while we discussed Milla, and its recent debut at Locarno 2017. Margot was then only a little younger ...
Interview with Valérie Massadian: More Feeding, Less Screaming John Edmond and Maura Edmond March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care Valérie Massadian’s charismatic and raw interviews match her work. In this conversation she discusses her background, her approach to reality, and how both inform her filmmaking practice. The interview was c...
La Collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer, 1967) Maura Edmond March 2017 Love Letters: 1967 You could be forgiven for thinking Eric Rohmer’s first film cycle, the ‘Six Moral Tales’ included six different moral tales. It doesn’t. In each film of the series, a man makes a choice between two women. To be...
Deracination, Disembowelling and Scorched Earth Aesthetics: Feminist Cinemas, No Wave and the Punk Avant Garde Maura Edmond September 2016 American Extreme This article discusses cinematic extremes - on-screen sex and violence but also extremes of grain and texture and production cultures - in the work of several women directors closely associated with the undergr...
