Director
Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Starring
Dinah Stabb, Merdelle Jordine, Rhiannon Tise
Run Time
92 mins
Release Year
1977
Country of Origin
UK
Language
English
Director of Photography: Diane Tammes
Editor: Carola Klein, Larry Sider
Music: Mike Ratledge
Screenplay by: Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Sound Production: Larry Sider
Riddles of the Sphinx
Part of the Reframing the Gaze: Experiments in Women’s Filmmaking, 1972 to Now Strand
Written and directed by two icons of film theory, this feminist classic challenges the gaze, disrupts narrative conventions and explores issues of motherhood and work in a patriarchal society. The film combines a radical deconstruction of the male gaze with an interrogation of the Oedipus myth to produce a groundbreaking intervention in both feminism and film form. From its 360-degree panning shots to experiments with voiceover and performance, the film is as cutting edge today as it was in 1977. [U]