Senem Aytac

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¨Shōnagon had a passion for lists: the list of 'elegant things,' 'distressing things,' or even of 'things not worth doing.' One day she got the idea of drawing up a list of 'things that quicken the heart.'” (San Soleil, Chris Marker, 1983)

Inspired by Sei Shōnagon, here is another list, a list of things that quicken my heart to accompany my selection:

People who dig and resurrect female directors’ films from the depths of the wreckage of ‘His’tory;

women who follow narrow paths instead of main roads, who got off the track on purpose or who got lost on the way;

women in control of their own bodies and images;

women who collect things on the way;

women who passionately deconstruct things;

women who are sometimes too exhausted to get up to make a film, or rather, make a film about it;

women who play the games they invented themselves;

feminist killjoys, drifters, tramps, vagabonds, camerapersons, witches, poets,

scissors, cut-ups, collages, reassemblages.