How do we look at each other in the streets? How do we inspire each other? The Canadian documentary filmmaker Chelsea McMullan looks at women who look at women.
When Women Look at Other Women on the Street
We dress up, we dress down, we put on make-up - or choose not to. Women are often very conscious about what they’re wearing, how they appear, what signals they send, and what character they play when dressing themselves, leaving the house, and taking the streets. What is this part of a woman’s world?
[quotes from the movie]
“It’s like when you see a woman across the street and you can’t quite make out everything that’s working. You cross her and then you see the full outfit, the full effect and what she’s radiating out to the world and it’s like so satisfying, it looks great.”
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“I like that feeling of putting on a character as well, you know, somewhere I’m in a Fassbinder film, in my head, walking around Germany.”
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- “I don’t want other people to think I think about it too much either.”
- “Yeah, you don’t want to look like you’re trying too hard.”
- “No, no, no, it’s brutal.”
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“I sometimes find it more satisfying for a girl to check me out than a guy to check me out.”
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“In more recent years I’ve started to just smile at people because I realised the power of smiling at another woman.”
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“The culture’s so hostile that it’s stolen our ability to look at each other a lot of the time so I think of kind of take that back and to smile and not feel like there’s something wrong with me admiring the way someone looks in their skin and in their clothes. It’s really beautiful.”
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