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[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2019: [44/52] Chanthaly, dir. Mattie Do (Laos, 2013)

My mother says the more attention you give the spirits, the more power they have.

[fematrix]

radfem-ish movie recs!!

as a professional procrastinator i tend to watch a lot of movies recently. i wanted to give you a list of my personal recs - movies about women, by women, for women. without misogyny (that goes unpunished, at least), making women suffer for men's plot development, where women are the center, the background and the core of a production, which treats their issues with respect and dignity. i tried to reach for the lesser known titles, but these are usually the best in this category!

1. Blow the Man Down (2019)

one of my absolute favourite movies of all time - there's a small seaside town, abusers that get their justice delivered, women with knives and a local secret that forever changes our characters' lives 🌊

directed by bridget savage cole and danielle krudy

2. You Are Not My Mother (2021)

irish folklore, familial connection between three women, gloomy atmosphere and a couple of shots that genuinely scared the shit out of me. it's worth noting that it was also kate dolan's first movie, which is extra impressive for a debut ⭐

directed by kate dolan

3. The Outrun (2024)

based on amy liptrot's memoir (which i highly recommend too!) this movie tells a story of a young woman fighting alcoholism, depression and family issues, while isolating herself on the orkney island. self discovery among unpredictable nature, local folklore, learning how to ask for help, also... the kind of detoxifying solitude that actually helps 🦭

directed by nora fingscheidt

4. Kajillionaire (2020)

a young woman with a wide set of con artist skills and a family who never showed her any love or care. a mysterious stranger who takes interest in them, doing her best to get closer to our main character, which is kind of tricky for both of them. it's an unusual, brilliantly original and somewhat cathartic piece for those from weird backgrounds, navigating basic life skills in the early adulthood 🫧

directed by miranda july

5. Fire (1996)

the first bollywood movie to actually show a lesbian relationship - and even grant them a happy ending! it's a good-for-her story about two women who grow tired of their husbands, patriarchal traditions and systems that seem to never recognise them as fully free and autonomous people. long story short, they finally give metaphorical middle fingers to their shitty husbands and choose happiness and equality in each other's embrace 🕯️

directed by deepa mehta

[fadeintoyou1993]

DO REVENGE (2022) dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

[unisex-muffin]

Things you can watch/do instead of YouTube, For those who may have trouble finding things to do.

1. Internet Archive. Has plenty of videos to watch, plenty of games you can play that are emulated right on the website. You can also find entire collections of roms. For emulators, check out Emulation General Wiki to find the best emulator for the system you want to emulate.

2. r/piracy has a wiki full of safe places to read comics and manga, to watch anime and cartoons, and to watch movies.

3. Virtualbox, you can set up a Windows XP virtual box and get old PC games from Internet Archive. You can also check out CD Game World if you need a no-cd patch.

4. Saltybet. A Livestream of MUGEN with thousands of characters fighting against each other, sometimes things get hilarious. Runs 24/7.

5. The Cutting Room Floor, spend hours reading up on cut content from your favorite games.

6. Lost Media Wiki, read up on lost movie, books, animation, video games, etc.

7. Neocities, learn coding and make your own website!

8. WebDSR, explore shortband radio

9. Radio Garden, listen to radio stations from around the world

10. Every Noise At Once, explore the widest archive of music genres, with samples and Spotify playlists

11. My Retro TV, pick and era and watch popular television from that time period

[iambeees]

A detail I dont think I've seen anyone talk about when analysing Wake Up Dead Man's women is Louise has a brother. And this only makes her asking father Jud to pray for her even more heartbreaking, because despite having a brother, she feels truly alone. She gives no indication that her brother has visited their dying mother, let alone provide her with emotional support.

We talk a lot about how the church treats and exploits the women who are active in the church, but there's little discussion about how the church's ideals of what a woman should be impacts every woman, not just the ones who attend the services. Louise knows Wicks is a cruel man, but she still, probably subconsciously, conforms to his ideals. She is the only one in her family to care for her mother. She attempts to make polite conversation with Jud but is shut down by him. When she sternly but politely calls him out for interrupting her, Jud sighs and becomes more frustrated.

We can even see how being a woman impacts her job. She runs the buisness with her brother, but hes the face of the buisness. He *takes* the orders, but she does all the *processing*. She should know all the answers, but she cannot give Jud and Blanc the answers because she has to get her brother to do it, and only then can she call back Jud.

Its small details like this that I love the most about Wake Up Dead Man. Such a perfect film

[escuerzoresucitado]

[cacodaemonia]

I know folks have been sharing this link on other posts, but &udm=14 works well:

[fangeek-girl]

You can add it as an extension to Firefox now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/reviews/

[awesomeart-83]

@gentleman-velvet

[gentleman-velvet]

Thank you very much

I’ll share this around :)

[theroguefeminist]

If you click the "what is &udm=14" link it provides a step by step guide on how to make a stripped down Google your default search engine

[tylostoma]

underseen films directed by women

with letterboxd links (i'm bored). feel free to leave your own recs!

girls of the night (1961), kinuyo tanaka

so far from india (1983), mira nair

children of shatila (1998), mai masri

the company of strangers (1990), cynthia scott

the cherry tree with gray blossoms (1977), sumiko haneda

day night day night (2006), julia loktev

embracing (1992), naomi kawase

song of the exile (1990), ann hui

living together (1973), anna karina

sacrificed youth (1985), zhang nuanxin

just another girl on the i.r.t. (1992), leslie harris

shinjuku boys (1995), kim longinotto, jano williams

leila and the wolves (1984), heiny srour

fast color (2018), julia hart

flight of the swan (1992), ngozi onwurah

travolta and me (1993), patricia mazuy

u.s. go home (1994), claire denis

portrait of a young girl at the end of the 60s in brussels (1994), chantal akerman

merrily we go to hell (1932), dorothy arzner

blood tea and red string (2006), christiane cegavske

the mourning forest (2007), naomi kawase

the scarlet flower (1978), irina povolotskaya

forever a woman/eternal breasts (1955), kinuyo tanaka

losing ground (1982), kathleen collins

the day i became a woman (2000), marziyeh meshkiny

be pretty and shut up! (1981), delphine seyrig

the other side of the underneath (1972), jane arden

the final exit of the disciples of ascensia (2019), jonni peppers

bärbel and charly (1994), ute aurand

clotheslines (1982), roberta cantow

tremble all you want (2017), akiko ohku

peppermint soda (1977), diane kurys

i was a teenage serial killer (1993), sarah jacobson

sink or swim (1990), su friedrich

the girls (1968), mai zetterling

twelve nights (2000), aubrey lam oi-wah

maria's days (1960), cecilia mangini

kamome diner (2006), naoko ogigami

the book of mary (1985), anne-marie miéville

once upon a time... (1990), galina barinova

girls' encounter (2017), yûka eda

the fourth dimension (2001), trịnh t. minh-hà

the lighthouse (2006), mariya saakyan

daughters of chaos (1980), marjorie keller

the amazonian angel (1992), maria klonaris, katerina thomadaki

bernice bobs her hair (1976), joan micklin silver

[concordewillfly]

turned this into a letterboxd list with some recs from the notes too!

[lucy-harker]

Oh! There she is! The almost-birthday girl!

LONGLEGS (2024) dir. Oz Perkins

[haloquin]

The Cauldron of Awen: A Creative Initiation

Happy Imbolc! Tomorrow marks Imbolc, which is considered by many to be the festival of Brigid, Goddess and Saint of poetry, healing, and smith-craft (among other things). (It’s also the start of the annual song-writing challenge, FAWM, which I’ve found so inspiring these past two years.) Here in the Northern Hemisphere, in Wales, the land is starting to wake up after the long dark nights, and…

The Cauldron of Awen: A Creative Initiation

[greengableslover]

BRIGHT STAR (2009) dir. Jane Campion

[violetsandshrikes]

to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer

connectedpapers

the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!

for example: here i search "human B12"

i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"

here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)

you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.

[estampita]

Un poco del comic en el que estuve trabajando los ultimos meses. Arrancó como una idea en el verano y se fue concretando mes a mes, sabiendo que quería llevarlo a la crack bang boom de este año.

Las Flores del Funeral comenzó en 2024 tan solo como un juego de diseñar personajes para llevar algo a la crack bang boom de ese año. Su primer forma fue un fanzine de una hoja con tan solo los personajes dibujados. Para este nuevo comic fue muy divertido darles la personalidad que me imaginaba y hacerles atravesar algun drama en algunas paginas.

Este comix es sobre la amistad, lo hice pensando en todos mis amigos y amigas.

Hay una unión inseparable entre este comic y la amistad y como ambas cosas me sostuvieron y ayudaron a resistir momentos poco felices.

hay que estar unidos. gracias por leer!

[kittyit]

GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform v

A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customi

wow. that was painless. open terminal and copy paste 1 line of code. Debloated

[magnetictapedatastorage]

a one hour sci-fi movie about a group of all-women space pirates

[lonely-night]

I appreciate the effort to include joan chen in queer films but please stop casting her as the lesbian's mother CAST HER AS THE LESBIAN PLEASE

[lonely-night]

WE FUCKING WON !!!!!!!!!!!!

(source)

[lonely-night]

update with new poster!!!!

[tenbees]

Can you drop the sapphic reading list please 🙏

here are some of my faves:

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

a day of fallen night by samantha shannon

affinity by sarah waters

learned by heart by emma donoghue

spear by nicola griffith

hild by nicola griffith

menewood by nicola griffith

ammonite by nicola griffith

i have mixed feelings about these but feel like they’re still good enough to recommend trying out:

after sappho by selby wynn schwartz

a memory called empire by arkady martine

a desolation called peace by arkady martine

house of hunger by alexis henderson

the burning kingdoms trilogy by tasha suri

this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone

bury our bones in the midnight soil by v. e. schwab

there are a couple others not worth mentioning loll. right now i’m reading a dark and drowning tide by allison saft, 60 pages in and it’s fun so far

[asmybreathkissesthewindow]

beautiful questions from Deep listening by Pauline Oliveros