Digital Video - January 2008 - (Page 26) CLOSE-UPS DV UPDATE ANOTHER VIEW INTERVIEW BY DAVID E. WILLIAMS ALEXIS KRASILOVSKY’S WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA SHEDS LIGHT ON A DIVERSE ARRAY OF FEMALE DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. A fter six years of production, writer-director-producer Alexis Krasilovsky’s award-winning feature documentary Women Behind the Camera recently had its World Premiere at the Globians World & Culture Festival in Potsdam, Germany, and its U.S. Premiere at the Moondance International Film Festival, in Hollywood, California. Most recently, the film had multiple screenings at the Camerimage film festival in Lödz, Poland, which focuses strictly on the work of directors of photography. Women Behind the Camera examines the lives, work and challenges of female cinematographers around the globe, and Krasilovsky’s subjects range from African-American Jessie Maple Patton (who had to sue the U.S. camera guild and television networks to get jobs) to Shu Shi Jun (who traveled throughout China dv january 2008 as Mao Ze Dong’s personal cinematographer) to Ellen Kuras, ASC (who broke through into major Hollywood features with such films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) to Rozette Ghadery (one of the first camerawomen in Iran, who shot a film about chemical warfare in Kurdistani Iraq). The project is a companion piece to Krasilovsky’s 1997 book “Women Behind the Camera: Conversations With Camerawomen,” which includes interviews with 23 subjects. Her other films include Exile (1984), Blood (1976), and End of the Art World (1971). Her films have aired nationally on PBS and The Learning Channel and screened in at numerous museums and festivals, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Viennale. A professor of screenwriting and film studies at Cal State Northridge in Southern California, Krasilovsky received her MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts. www.dv.com 26 http://www.dv.com
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