by Giovanna Chesler | Oct 14, 2009 | Film, Girls, Independent Film, Menarche
The third film in the Blood on Screen series is Camille Holder Brown’s award winning A Period Piece (2005). I know of at least two other films and one sculptural artwork that use this title. Yet despite the ubiquitous pun, each work has an equally clever take on the...
by Giovanna Chesler | Sep 17, 2009 | Film, Independent Film, Media
Despite the shame of menstruation, feminist media makers have often turned to the cycle for inspiration. At the 2009 Spokane Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference, I curated a screening of short films on the menstrual cycle. Over the next few weeks I will...