Laura Mulvey in Discussion

LAURA MULVEY
BFI
May 29, 2015

Today Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s “milestone in experimental cinema” RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX begins exclusively streaming on OVID (BFI).

In this companion video, Laura Mulvey, author of the groundbreaking essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” discusses this feminist manifesto along with filmmakers Joanna Hogg and Isaac Julien as well as academics John David Rhodes, Tamar Garb, Mandy Merck and Emma Wilson.

After you watch RIDDLES OF THE SPHINX, be sure to check-out her documentary FRIDA KAHLO AND TINA MODOTTI, which sheds light on the work of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Italian photographer Tina Modotti, women icons of the Mexican Renaissance.