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Introduction Věra Chytilová’s Daisies  (1966) and Mai Zetterling’s The Girls  ( Flickorna , 1968) are among the most formally adventurous feminist films to emerge from European cinema in the late 1960s. Though produced in different national contexts, both films challenge cinematic and social patriarchy through bold aesthetic strategies that disrupt narrative coherence, spectatorship, and gendered representation. Daisies , made within the Czech New Wave and shaped by the constraints of...

Dara Oliver Andia The relationship between cinema and politics is inseparable, yet political films vary in how directly they persuade or invite reflection. This essay argues that political cinema can transcend propaganda through stylistic complexity, moral ambiguity, and open-ended narrative form. Focusing on Le Crime de Monsieur Lange  (Jean Renoir, 1936, France) and Los Olvidados  (Luis Buñuel, 1950, Mexico), it explores how each film uses mise-en-scène, cinematography, and editing to...

Introduction This practice-as-research project investigates how breath, voice, and linguistic identity may be mobilised as cinematic material to explore the emotional and embodied dimensions of communication. The short film Breath  (2025) emerged through an iterative process that examined how non-verbal sound, fragmented speech, and the physical act of breathing can reveal internal states that exceed linguistic meaning. Although the project initially centred on an abstract interest in breath...