To quote the inimitable Sheryl Crow, “The first cut is the deepest.” For vol. 4, issue 3 of cléo, we’re going to be looking at FIRSTS: groundbreaking women; first films or performances; the new and novel; or those initial, formative filmgoing experiences. Cover Art:...
First off: a note of thanks. Thanks to the incredible women who give so much to this journal: Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, Mallory Andrews, Lydia Ogwang, Kathleen Kampeas-Rittenhouse. Thanks to Jovana Jankovic who copy edits our issues, Cathleen Evans who curates our...
In the 1930s, indigenous children in Nordic countries were sent to boarding schools to “assimilate” into mainstream white culture. In Sweden, Sámi children left their families of reindeer herders to attend these schools for months at a time, forbidden from speaking...
“Sex made your whole life start and if you think about life as like a circle, sex and death are like the same.” – Angela Chase Angela Chase (Claire Danes) takes sex seriously. Her attitude may seem overly dour, but the seriousness with which the protagonist of the...
The summer before I started college, I turned my lifelong passion for indie movies into a full-time job. In an attempt to prep for campus social life, a dear pastime became a chore as I tried to keep up with a white indie film canon that wasn’t exactly thrust upon me...
Over the course of seven films and one TV series, directors Lana and Lilly Wachowski have proven to be experts at smuggling cultural theory into commercially successful films. Take their 1999 blockbuster, The Matrix: inspired by the work of Jean Baudrillard, it...
