Daniella Shreir founded Another Gaze in January 2016 with Dorothy Allen-Pickard in London, and the journal has since become one of the most respected independent film publications in Europe. The title references Laura Mulvey’s foundational 1975 essay on the male gaze in cinema and proposes an alternative: a way of looking at film that centres women’s experiences, perspectives, and creative contributions both in front of and behind the camera. But Another Gaze is not a corrective exercise. It is, as Shreir has described it, a project that turns what could be deemed a limitation into an infinite reservoir of possibilities.
The journal is edited by Shreir, Missouri Williams, and Laura Staab, and operates as a non-profit — all editors work other jobs and are not paid by the publication. Donations fund printing, writer fees, and the translation work that allows the journal to interview filmmakers across languages and geographies. Five print issues have appeared, alongside a rich online archive of criticism, essays, and interviews. Issue five included writing on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Linda Manz, Sadie Benning, Sarah Maldoror, Cecilia Mangini, and Agnes Martin, with subjects ranging from surveillance and infant observation during the pandemic to devotional labour, prisons during lockdown, and the screen as psychic portal.
Shreir, who is also a translator from French, won a PEN prize for her translation of Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs and served on the selection committee of the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes between 2022 and 2024. Together with Williams, she launched Another Gaze Editions, a book imprint dedicated to writing by women about film, publishing works including Lorenza Mazzetti’s The Sky is Falling and Marguerite Duras’ My Cinema. Another Screen, the journal’s sister streaming platform launched during the pandemic, hosts films by women filmmakers alongside essays and interviews that contextualise their work.
Stocked at the BFI, the ICA, magCulture, the Photographers’ Gallery, the Cinémathèque Française, and Filmmuseum Vienna, Another Gaze has built an ecosystem — journal, bookshop, streaming platform, publishing house — that insists women’s contributions to cinema are not a subcategory but the main event.
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