Terra Femme is a beautifully realised essay film comprised of amateur travelogues filmed by women in the 1920s-1950s. With a score by Sarah Davachi, the film weaves between geographical essay, personal inquiry, and historical speculation, examining these films as both private documents and accidental ethnographies. The films present a new type of traveler: no longer a male seeker of conquests, she might be a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, or a widow on a cruise to the North Pole. Representing the world through women’s eyes, the films raise questions about female representation in the archive, the role of amateurism in early non-fiction filmmaking, and the politics of the Western gaze. At once a film about longing for past worlds through cinematic excavation, this force flows in both directions: as women from the past search for self-making in the act of looking.

Terra Femme

Created alone in the desert, imaginary structures are built and destroyed through seeking out the edges of an unknown landscape. We keep finding

Building an Edge

What can be seen through the back-up camera on a car? The past and the paths not taken. The future and it’s wild possibilities. This short film examines big life questions while we view a garbage dump through a camera mounted on the rear of a car.

Rear View

Shot in majestic 16mm, this beautiful riddle&nbsp;of&nbsp;shapes and gestures playfully celebrates both creation and labour.

Demands of Ordinary Devotion

A ship on the oceans of time: a Dadaist time travel film. A hand-made split-screen film using the technique of disrupted stereoscopy and collage détournement of found images.

Dada Ship

Australia

Terra Femme plus 4 short films

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