Gaze Regimes

Max Annas is an author, journalist, film curator, filmmaker and currently the SARChI Chair in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare in East London, South Africa.Tsitsi Dangarembga is a writer, filmmaker, teacher and cultural activist. She lives in Harare, Zimbabwe where she directs the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa Trust.Beti Ellerson is the founder and Director of the Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema.Taghreed Elsanhouri is a Sudanese-born documentary filmmaker based in Britain.Jihan El-Tahri is an author and documentary filmmaker. She lives in France.Henriette Gunkel lectures in the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.Katarina Hedrén is a freelance writer and the co-programmer of the Johannesburg-based First Wednesday Film Club.Ines Kappert is the editor of the opinion section of the taz, a Germany-wide newspaper.Rumbi Katedza is a writer and filmmaker who lives in Zimbabwe.Anita Khanna was born in India and studied in Great Britain. She is a producer and writer as well as the director of the Tri Continental Film Festival.Arya Lalloo is an independent filmmaker based in Johannesburg.Nobunye Levin is a filmmaker and lecturer in the Film and Television division of the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Jyoti Mistry is a filmmaker and Associate Professor in the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Isabel Noronha is a Mozambican documentary filmmaker.Antje Schuhmann is a Senior Lecturer in the Political Studies Department and the Centre for Diversity Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Christina von Braun is a filmmaker and Professor Emeritus of Cultural Theory anda representative of The Centre for Jewish Studies, Berlin-Brandenburg.Katharina von Ruckteschell is the Director of the Sao Paulo Goethe- Institut and Regional Director for South America and a former Director for sub-Saharan Africa.Djo Tunda wa Munga runs his own film production company, Suka Productions! in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Shannon Walsh is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.Dorothee Wenner is a freelance filmmaker, writer and film festival curator based in Berlin.

• Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Foreword by Katharina von Ruckteschell, Goethe-Institut sub-Saharan Africa; Introduction - By way of context and content - Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann; African women in cinema: An overview - Beti Ellerson; 'I am a feminist only in secret' - Interview with Taghreed Elsanhouri and Christina von Braun by Ines Kappert; Staged authenticity: Femininity in photography and film - Christina von Braun; 'Power is in your own hands': Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements - Interview with Jihan El-Tahri by Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann; Aftermath - A focus on collective trauma - Interview with Djo Tunda wa Munga and Rumbi Katedza by Antje Schuhmann and Jyoti Mistry; Shooting violence and trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work - Antje Schuhmann; Puk Nini - A filmic instruction in seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations - Antje Schuhmann and Jyoti Mistry; I am Saartjie Baartman - Nobunye Levin; Filmmaking at the margins of a community: On co-producing Elelwani - Jyoti Mistry; On collective practices: Jeppe on a Friday - Interview with Shannon Walsh and Arya Lalloo by Jyoti Mistry; 'Cinema of resistance' - Interview with Isabel Noronha by Max Annas and Henriette Gunkel; Dark and personal - Anita Khanna; 'Change? This might mean to shove a few men out' - Interview with Anita Khanna by Antje Schuhmann and Jyoti Mistry; Barakat means enough! - Katarina Hedren; 'Women, use the gaze to change reality' - Interview with Katarina Hedren by Antje Schuhmann and Jyoti Mistry; Post-colonial film collaboration and festival politics - Dorothee Wenner; Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto - Interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga by Jyoti Mistry and Antje Schuhmann.

This intricately woven collection presents nuanced images - from the north to the south of the African continent - of the contemporary state of women's representation, roles and engagements in the film world. - Lindiwe Dovey, senior lecturer in African film, SOAS, University of London and honorary associate professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal.