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Women’s time and the cinema of Marleen Gorris

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posted on 2023-06-10, 02:45 authored by Sue Thornham
This article examines the cinema of Dutch feminist filmmaker Marleen Gorris in the light of Julia Kristeva’s concept of Women’s Time’ and of more recent attempts to conceptualise a temporality that is lived ‘in the feminine’ but is not, as Kristeva’s is, either outside historical time – as cyclic and/or monumental – or aligned to the repetitive drudgery of domestic labour. Drawing on Lisa Baraitser’s (2017) concept of ‘unbecoming time’, a time that ‘will not unfold’ but is lived as endurance, as ‘staying beside others’, and as care, it argues that Gorris’s films seek to depict such a temporality. The article first explores the shifting engagements of feminist theory with concepts of time and the relationship of these to ideas of subjectivity and narrative, in particular cinematic narrative. It then examines the cinema of Marleen Gorris in the light of these concepts, focusing on three of her films that span a twenty-five year period: her second film, Broken Mirrors (1984); Antonia’s Line (1995), her fourth film and winner of the 1996 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film; and her most recent and possibly last film, Within the Whirlwind (2009). It gives most attention to Within the Whirlwind. In many ways Gorris’s most ambitious film, it is also her least discussed, and of her films, the one that focuses most directly on historical time.

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Feminist Theory

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1464-7001

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SAGE Publications

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1-7

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  • Media and Film Publications

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2022-02-28

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2022-02-28

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2022-02-28

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