The Conceptual Epigraph: Alison Peirse

Made for the Ways of Doing ‘Conceptual Epigraph’ videographic exercise, using Kairo / Pulse (2001, Japan). Inspired by the writing of Maryam Tafakory, accompanying ‘Chaste/Unchaste’, and responses from Catherine Grant and Maria Walsh, published in [in]Transition 10.3 (2023). This is part of a series of exercises exploring feminist citation designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, Colleen […]

The Conceptual Epigraph: Alison Peirse

Making Materiality Matter: Alison Peirse

Suffocated but Screaming is a response to “Making Materiality Matter: Johannes Binotto’s Art of the Process” videographic exercise developed by the Ways of Doing initiative. It explores the figure of the woman-cat-monster in Japanese kaibyo eiga (ghost cat horror films). The first screening of this work will be at the Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia […]

Making Materiality Matter: Alison Peirse

Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language: Alison Peirse

For publication in a forthcoming In Media Res special issue, Hollywood Film Style and the Production Code: Criticism and History, edited by Tom Brown. The formal parameters for this video essay were taken from ‘Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language: Barbara Zecchi’s Feminist Mechanisms’, one of Feminist Citational Practice exercises devised by the Ways of Doing collective (Lucy […]

Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language: Alison Peirse