Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema — Season 1, Episode 12: Reveal, Memory, Time

Episode synopsis

"Reveal". How does Lynne Ramsay do a reveal, in Morvern Callar? How does the great actor-director Kinuyo Tanaka? Or Sarah Polley? Or Alice Rohrwacher? "Memory". As cinema is a kind of time machine, it's no surprise that it's great at representing memory. In this chapter we look at rare movie gems about memory directed by filmmakers including Petra Costa, Maria Plyta, Dorota Kędzierzawska, Věra Chytilová, Mai Zetterling, and Mati Diop. "Time". Every filmmaker has to think about time. As this chapter shows, Alice Guy-Blaché, Chantal Akerman, Ildikó Enyedi, Hanna Polak, Marie Menken, and Sally Potter have done so brilliantly.

About Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world's greatest filmmakers -- all of them women.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Openings, Tone
• E2Believability, Introducing Character, Meet Cute
• E3Conversation, Framing, Tracking
• E4Staging, Journey, Discovery
• E5Adult/Child, Economy, Editing
• E6POV, Close-up, Dream
• E7Bodies, Sex
• E8Home, Religion, Work
• E9Politics, Gear Change, Comedy
• E10Melodrama, Sci-Fi, Horror & Hell
• E11Tension, Stasis, Leave Out
• E13Life Inside, The Meaning of Life, Love