Podcast

Isabel Seguí with Lorena Best, Mauricio Godoy, Sara Guerrero & Patricia Oliart

In the 1980s and 1990s in Lima, white middle-class women made nonfiction films and videos with and about marginalized people, many of them Indigenous, who were living in slums around the city. This podcast looks back at this moment, diagnosing the questions of power, representation and positionality raised by this body of work.

Marc Siegel with Angelika Levi & Claudia Schillinger

Sexually explicit imagery has long been a feminist battleground. Film scholar Marc Siegel talks with two filmmakers, Angelika Levi and Claudia Schillinger, who made works in West Germany in the late 1980s committed to picturing female pleasure and fantasy.

Deepa Dhanraj & Lakshmi Padmanabhan

How can film serve as a catalyst of social change? Film scholar Lakshmi Padmanabhan speaks with Deepa Dhanraj, focusing on Dhanraj’s participation in the Yugantar Collective and her 1991 film Something Like a War, which examines India’s family planning program and calls for reproductive justice.

Laura Huertas Millán & Trinh T. Minh-ha

In her 1982 film Reassemblage, Trinh T. Minh-ha influentially reformulated the terms of the ethnographic encounter: she would not “speak about,” but “speak nearby.” In this conversation with artist-filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán, the two discuss this concept and others pertaining to both their practices.