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BETTE GORDON

BETTE GORDON

BETTE GORDON
Filmmaker, Professor

FILMMAKER AND PROFESSOR

a woman behind the camera

“I like to watch.”

“Human interaction carries with it a lot of different layers. It’s not obvious. But underneath it there’s this question what are our desires. Sometimes they’re so unconscious that we can’t even speak them. And that’s what interest me. “ Interview with Josh Charles

Anybody’s Woman, A Film by Bette Gordon

“You know what the rules are of the genre and I always follow anticipation mixed with uncertainty. Those are my 2 key ideas in my head, even if it’s a dramatic narrative and not a thriller. Understanding that it’s not what’s happening now, it’s what’s happening next…” Interview with Josh Charles

BETTE GORDON
Filmmaker, Professor
BETTE GORDON

Bette Gordon is an independent filmmaker and professor of film at Columbia University. “Emerging from the avant-garde underground of the 1970’s and ‘80s, Bette Gordon made her mark with subversive investigations of sexuality and gender roles that invert genre expectations with their feminist themes. Following a string of groundbreaking experimental shorts-including the structuralist landmark THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, codirected with James Benning- Gordon made her narrative feature debut with VARIETY, a noir-tinged study of voyeurism, pornography, and fantasy that turns the conventional male gaze back on itself. Fifteen years later, Gordon followed it up with LUMINOUS MOTION, a similarly provocative, dreamlike thriller about a mother and son who share an unsettling bond. “ (Criterion Collection).

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MICHI ITAMI

MICHI ITAMI
JILL JOHNSTON

JILL JOHNSTON