Films to be reviewed and discussed

Below is a list of the films I will be reviewing in this blog. The list is subject to additions.

The other side of burka

dir. Mehrdad Oskouei

Dual injustice : feminicide and torture in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua

by Laura Salas and Tamaryn Nelson

China blue

Micha X. Peled

Hedersmord = Honourable murder

Mats Billberg Johansson

Changing paths : female circumcision in Mali

Jacqueline Bakker

Beyond borders--: Arab feminists talk about their lives

directed by Jennifer Kawaja

Blossoms of fire= Ramo de fuego

Ellen Osborne, Maureen Gosling

La Boda= The wedding

The Transnational Lens Objectives

Site Objectives:

• Review Documentary films within a Transnational Framework.
• Discuss the power of representation and how it used and abused by documentarians.
• Applying TF theories to older documentaries, the films themselves do not need to take a Transnational Feminist stance, I however, will and will suggest how the film fails or succeeds in providing the audience with a TF understanding of these women’s lives.
• I will also point out if and when it seems as though the filmmaker is displaying the women in the film as so ‘alien’ that we can only observe their foreign lives but not feel at all connected to them.
• Discuss how the filmmakers approached the film, their editing choices, decisions on music, etc.
• Finally I would like to address the ways in which the medium of film can be used to further the causes of Transnational Feminists.