The area where we feel the most relaxed and thus the most influential ,when talking about media, is movie projector. Woman by learning the tools for delivering their ideas via cameras started to give light also to the inner lives of women and humanity overall.
Watching the movies of so many genres by so many artists , we can hear own desires very often.But is that the truth?! As Sally Potter said :” It not about what we want ,but what we can hear within ourselves (Contemporary Auteur). Indeed ,the only way to hear that truth is to focus on ourselves and not nurture the labels .
Searching about the director Sally Potter, I was amazed how nicely I was introduced into real machete of filmmaking . In her explanations about the collaborative work in filming ,she just stated the fact without attacks on dominated male directors or male’s world. She said that her vision is a base for movie,but not expressible if there are not the other artists “Also, maybe female directors are more willing to give credit to the people that they work with because women know that there is an enormous amount of invisible labor involved in cinema, and women historically have usually done the invisible work in the home and the workplace. You don't want to do that to other people. You want to make sure that the things people do are recognized and given credit”(Contemporary Auteur).
As following her visions, she never openly wanted to talk about the feminism, even though she is , because she is aware of many people who are not informed properly about that word. That understanding gives her especially that freedom. Why she should battle against the patriarchy, and on that way exhausting her self. She just know who she is and her opinions she shows through her own work.
Through out her twenty active years as a director ,her most successful movie is “Orlando”. That movie she was preparing for eight years. From many angles she approached the importance of inner lives of people. She chosen the “Orlando” ,written by Virginia Wolf, novel which does not rely on unity of time ,place and actions.On that way she felt complete freedom to show beauty of soul.She explaines:”I am trying to restore to people that sense of themselves ,which has nothing to do with gender ,time or circumstance.It’s about the immortal soul”.(Senses of Cinema) Orlando ,also the main character ,is a person who ,either playing the man or later woman ,always feels the same. Potter strengthens that feeling by putting attention on different characters that change with a changing of Orlando’s sex.
However , paying attention for her inner world ,she dedicated herself to dance ,especially tango.She realized that depiction of a soul is seen through movements .That she started to use as the main language in the movies.That Sally's combining of two passion ,dance and director,culminated with movie "Orlando".This movie also brought her on the list amigo other director and Sally rect to that that this movie was conformation of her love to herself first.
Also being an actress in her movies ,such as "The Tango Lesson" shows her strong impulse of this kind of art and her strong independency.Thus playing and challenging our imagination we are closer to ourselves and at that way blind for limitations that we can face.
Work Cited:
Potter, Sally, The Contemporary Auteur,by Krisy Widdicombe http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/publications/16+/potter.html
Potter ,Sally ,Cinema of Senses Sally%20Potter%20%7C%20Senses%20of%20Cinema.webarchive
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