WOMEN MAKE FILM: DEATH, ENDINGS, SONG AND DANCE by Mark CousinsPublication Date: 2018
38 DEATH: The biggest subject in life, the most universal subject –no wonder that Japan’s Kinuyo Tanaka, Canada’s Caroline Leaf, Spain’s Ana Mariscal, Holland’s Paula Van der Oest and other great filmmakers in this chapter embrace it.
39 ENDINGS: We begin to end our epic road movie withfilms from Sonja Heiss, Larisa Shepitko, Ida Lupino, Lizzie Borden, Claire Denis and Maya Deren. 40 SONG AND DANCE: End with a song, they say, so our story does. Huang Shuginfrom China, Vera Stroeva from Russia, Scotland’s Margaret Tait, Alice Guy, Edith Carlmar, Celine Sciamma, Brazil’s Gilda de Ebreu, America’s Joan Micklin Silver, the great Shirley Clarke, Dorothy Arzner and Beyonce make music with their films. We conclude our story, our road movie, and end in an unexpected place…