In "Cinema Her Way," Marya E. Gates engages with women directors, sharing their inspirations and challenges. Gates recounts her transformative year of only watching female-directed films, sparked by documentaries highlighting women's invisibility in cinema. This journey led her to create ‘Female Filmmaker Friday,’ revealing the extensive work of directors like Susan Seidelman, contradicting the narrative that women only make a few films. Gates critiques film lists that shrink women's achievements, emphasizing the need for broader acknowledgment of female filmmakers' impact on cinema.
It made me wonder how many women writers I hadn't been taught in school and of course how many women filmmakers I had never heard about.
I was still operating under the mistaken idea that most women only make one film or that only a few women had made more than one.
It felt repetitive and not helpful at all. Several 'best films of all time' lists would only have maybe one film directed by a woman on it.
Both films were in one sense or another about the various ways that women and their accomplishments are written out of history.
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