Sex and the series, The Feminine Gaze and Under our eyes, Iris Brey signs works on the way in which the woman is perceived in the world of the image.
Before our eyes, Iris Brey and Mirion Malle at La ville burnt editions
Changing our outlook to change the world.
This little book illustrated by Mirion Malle shows us that women’s bodies are not filmed, exposed in the same way as men’s.
For example, the camera starts from the feet and goes up to the face. Close-ups focus on certain parts of the body (the mouth, breasts, buttocks, etc.). Processes which make the woman an object.
Through the history of cinema, numerous cinematographic references, Iris Brey teaches us to decipher these representations. It educates our gaze to thwart clichés.
Rehabilitate the woman
Iris Brey talks about male gauze, the male gaze is everywhere. It reflects the patriarchal vision of our society. He reduces the woman to the state of object.
The author claims the female gaze, the feminine gaze * the fact of sharing the experience of a heroine, being in her head, in her body, and having the impression of feeling things with her “. pornography, rape, she underlines the absence of desire, of female orgasm.
They marked the cinema
At 23, Alice Guy became the first fiction director and the first female filmmaker in the world.
From 1910 to 1920, Hollywood had as many women as men in all positions, directors, screenwriters, editors, cameramen and cinematographers.
* Before our eyes, page 30, see The feminine gaze of L’Olivier editions