A Woman Is a Cinema invokes cinema not as a closed object, but as an open system teeming with images, sounds, forces, ideas, feelings, and politics. Cinema takes on many forms, and in turn, it changes the possibilities of form. Cinema helps us to dream.

Likewise, this publication imagines a woman not as a category, or exclusionary principle, or box to be ticked. Rather, to identify as a woman is to occupy a rallying point that connects to a larger body of experience; a means to draw the blood of feminist experience in all its forms. Being a woman means many different things, and the differences are at least as important as what we all agree on.

A Woman Is a Cinema reclaims womanhood as a call to express that multitude of experience.

In this sense, a woman and a cinema have some affinity. There’s a shape to A Woman Is a Cinema, and we invite you to help sculpt it. This publication seeks to think feminism and the cinematic together in new, productive ways. A Woman Is a Cinema is an experiment in open form, but it’s also an expression of contrast, collaboration, and intersection. 

– Julia Yudelman, Curator