Focus: Katja Raganelli
Overview of films
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Katja Raganelli meets Márta Mészáros
A snapshot of Hungary’s most celebrated female director in one portrait and three partly autobiographical shorts. -
Katja Raganelli meets Alice Guy
A little-seen early assessment of cinema’s first female director plus three choice examples of her art. -
Katja Raganelli meets Margery Wilson
The only account of silent era actress-director Margery Wilson plus a classy Western showing off her skills. -
Tiger Talk: Women in Film – The Katja Raganelli Method
Katja Raganelli shares how her (extensive oeuvre of) portraits of female filmmakers came to be. -
Katja Raganelli meets Lotte Reiniger
A paean to an early female animation genius plus four examples of her extraordinary imagination. -
Alice Guy Blaché – Hommage an die erste Filmemacherin der Welt
Katja Raganelli | 60' | Germany | None
One of Raganelli’s earliest investigations into the beginnings of her artform, through Alice Guy-Blaché. -
Annot – Portrait einer Malerin und Pazifistin
Katja Raganelli | 48' | Germany | None
A portrait of German painter and pacifist Annot through Raganelli’s kindred lens. -
Asemie – Die Unfähigkeit, sich durch Mienenspiel ausdrücken zu können
VALIE EXPORT | 7' | Austria | None
A scandalous and densely symbolic video performance from 1977. -
At the Lőrinc Spinnery
Márta Mészáros | 16' | Hungary | None
Women at work in the Lőrinc spinning mill, a scene Mészáros would later return to. -
Katja Raganelli meets Delphine Seyrig
A bow to 70s European art-cinema’s most enigmatic actress and feminist activist. -
Bóbita
Márta Mészáros | 21' | Hungary | None
A young waif roams Budapest streets in one of Márta Mészáros’ early poetic shorts.
