vol. 4, issue 3: firsts

vol. 4, issue 3: firsts

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:...
Editor’s Note: Firsts

Editor’s Note: Firsts

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...
“You can’t just go home”: An Interview with Amanda Kernell

“You can’t just go home”: An Interview with Amanda Kernell

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...
Five Reasons to Love Love Jones

Five Reasons to Love Love Jones

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...
Women Unbound: Queer Utopia in the Wachowski Sisters’ Bound

Women Unbound: Queer Utopia in the Wachowski Sisters’ Bound

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...