Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema poster

Basic Info

First Air: September 01, 2018

Rating: ⭐ 7.0/10 (7 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Last Episode

Name: Death, Endings, Song and Dance

Season: 1, Episode: 14

Air Date: 2020-05-18

Runtime: 64 min

“Death”. The biggest subject in life, the most universal subject—no wonder that Japan’s Kinuyo Tanaka, Canada’s Caroline Leaf, Spain’s Ana Mariscal, Holland’s Paula Van der Oest, and other great filmmakers in this chapter embrace it. “Endings”. We begin to end our epic road movie with films from Sonja Heiss, Larisa Shepitko, Ida Lupino, Lizzie Borden, Claire Denis, and Maya Deren. “Song and Dance”. End with a song, they say, so our story does. Huang Shuqin, Vera Stroyeva, Margaret Tait, Alice Guy-Blaché, Edith Carlmar, Céline Sciamma, Gilda de Abreu, Joan Micklin Silver, Shirley Clarke, Dorothy Arzner, and Beyonce make music with their films. We conclude our story, our road movie, and end in an unexpected place...

Videos

Women Make Film - Official Trailer (YouTube)

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

2018 1 seasons 14 episodes ⭐ 7.0/10 7 votes

Overview

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.