Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics RW AA Publications

AA Publications

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Anna Bates and Peter Maxwell

and Juha van ’t Zelfde

This new edition is published 50 years on since its original printing in June 1965 by the AA’s Action Communications Centre (A

Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics RW AA PublicationsBridging the gulf between aesthetics and politics, artist and film maker Petra Bauer reflects on her own experience of making political films and launches a theoretical argument that uncovers the aesthetic mechanisms underlying contemporary strategies for collective and feminist film making. An exploration in artistic research, the book draws on an extensive historical archive of radical film making and film theory, with particular focus on the