Movie Launch: “Beyond The Gaze: Media Awareness for Media Inclusivity”

Movie Launch: “Beyond The Gaze: Media Awareness for Media Inclusivity”

 

In early August, the film "Beyond The Gaze: Media Awareness for Media Inclusivity" was released. The non-commercial educational film is a project by a group of students, scholars, and filmmakers led by Greta Olson. The film explores meanings of the "gauze," a white, hetero-patriarchal, ableist, colonial gaze that is conveyed in films and media. Alternating between theoretical analysis and personal accounts of experience, The Gaze examines mechanisms of discrimination at the level of representation, production, and reception. In understandable language, the short film discusses how it remains possible to enjoy media while developing a critical eye for how the "Gaze" makes social hierarchies and exclusionary mechanisms seem natural. 

 

"Beyond the Gaze imagines what media could be and what we can make it to be - a garden in which everyone finds a place for themselves."