The Life of a Woman, Directed by Women

Emma Piper-Burket did this project to see if the life of a woman could be illustrated by clips of women from films directed by women. She found movies spanning 122 years from every corner of the world, and set to work. She tells about the project here.

This is an exercise that could be re-examined daily, each time with different results, and this makes me incredibly optimistic. As a female filmmaker it is easy to get discouraged in the face of all the statistics, but putting this together, and seeing in condensed form the work of over a century women using film as a medium for expression, gives me much hope.

(via Nag on the Lake)