Quiet Pictures

<b><i>Quiet Pictures</i> approaches the films of Joanna Hogg Lynne Ramsay Céline Sciamma and Lucile Hadzhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture.</b><br/><b><br/></b>This book takes up the question of different uses of silence in the work of these directors and how this creates a space for foregrounding innovative practices that establish new ways of looking staring and gazing. Sarah Artt discusses how the deliberate deployment of silence creates space for the formation of reciprocal gazes that counteract the typically gendered and binary ways in which women and femme-presenting people tend to be portrayed on screen. <i>Quiet Pictures</i> draws on the political legacy of feminist film theory to explore and conceptualise what it means to not just look back but to share the gaze.<br/> <br/>This book discusses several films including: <i>Unrelated</i>(Hogg 2007) <i>Archipelago</i>(Hogg 2010) <i>Exhibition</i>(Hogg 2013) <i>The Souvenir Part I and II</i>(Hogg 2019 and 2021) <i>Morvern Callar</i>(Ramsay 2002) <i>We Need to Talk About Kevin</i>(Ramsay 2011) <i>Innocence</i>(Hadzhalilovic 2004) <i>Evolution</i>(Hadzhalilovic 2015) <i>Waterlilies/Naissance des Pieuvres</i>(Sciamma 2007) <i>Tomboy</i>(Sciamma 2011)<i> Girlhood/Bande des Filles</i>(Sciamma 2014) <i>Portrait of a Lady on Fire/Portrait d'une jeune fille en feu</i>(Sciamma 2019<i>)</i> and <i>Petite Maman/Little Mother</i>(Sciamma 2021).