“Cinema” by Maria E Jits: Read an excerpt

Celebrate women’s managers and amazing contributions to filmmaking, The new book “Cinema is its way: the visual outputs with their own words((Rizoli New York, February 25) includes a brief history about the leading Trailblazers, in -depth interviews with unique managers, a comprehensive list of note talents and its films from authors and critics and the contribution of Indiewire Marya E. Gates.

Film makers interviewed with the next book are: Alison Anders, Gillian Armstrong, Lizi Borden, Jane Campion, Martha Colydge, Julie Dash, Josephine Decker, Sherrill Den, Betty Gordon, Mariel Hiller, Miranda, Carrie Kosama, Mary Lambert, Mira Nair Sally Potter, Gina Al-Amir-Beithud, Isabelle Sandoval, Susan Cedman, and Cat Xia.

Indiewire shares an exclusive excerpt from the Gates front below.

I first realized that women could direct movies when I was eight years old and my mother took me to see “little women” by Jellyan Armstrong. This film has affected the depth and has been my favorite movie since then. But for many years after I assumed that there were not many films that women have directed. When I read relevant articles, they always mentioned the same handful of names, as if only dozens of women took a camera and made films throughout the history of the cinema.

This wrong idea was perpetuated by many lists at all, which rarely guarantees any films directed by women. The same was true for film awards that rarely confessed to managers. I quickly realized that there was no shortage of women who were facing films, but in reality, a lack of debate about these directors and their films.

In 2013, I saw documentary films that made me reconsider everything I thought about in the laws: Judy Chicin “The Girls in the Band” and Sini Anderson “The Punk Singer”. These films made me realize that just because I am unaware of history, this does not mean that history does not exist. The history of women is often a popular narration. A few months later, Suzan Sweden’s films discovered. She fell on her head, but I also wondered why she had not heard before.

This made me think about the number of women who have not heard before, whether they are currently making films, or making films in the past. This perception led me to a project that I did in 2015 called “General with Women”, during which I spent only a full year watching the films directed by women or non -bilateral directors. I have opened a completely new world of cinema that I still explore today.

Since that year, I spent my life defending women’s films, and the most prominent films directed by women from the past, present and next. It should go without saying that there are much more managers in the history of cinema than it can be in one folder. In fact, trying to choose a few filmmakers for this book was a challenge. But every woman was very generous to spend time talking to me is someone who conveyed his films. These directors come from all over the world and their work extends decades, from the 1970s to films in production while reading this. Each film director who spoke to him made at least three feature films, although some also made documentaries, betrotherapy, music videos and even episodes of television. These women have worked within the Hollywood system independently.

I hope that the following talks that occurred from 2022 to 2024 will take a peek at the world of films and individual professions of these women. It displays a wide range of global views, experiences and expression methods. To highlight the cinematic conversations that these women had with each other, whether they have realized it or not. Also, they depict the many ways in which these women transmit an industry that are often hostile to them, and the way their talents and films have endured regardless.

My work here is dedicated to many directors who died but their contributions in the cinema, I am still debtor forever and inspired, including Jesse Mabd, Safi Fei, Lina Wermeller, Joan Michelin Silver, Sarah Maldoror, Susan Pitt, Varda, Barbara Hammer, Penny Marshall, Chantal Akerman, Nora Ephron, Ida Lupino, Shirley Clark, Kenoyu Tanaka, Sarah Gomez, Maya Dern, Germain Dalak, Louis Weber, and of course the leading mother of the cinema herself, Alice Gay Glashi.

I would like everyone to remember that the original film rules were created by a woman, and that the cinema has always been her way.