THE ALCHEMICAL
FILM JOURNAL
This research portfolio examines the structural omissions in moving image history by analyzing how women film-makers utilize the film’s materiality as a tool for political and social resistance. We explore how these women weaponise the chemical and temporal properties of film to record marginalized experiences, from ‘the other side’ or ‘below’,
By gathering visual case studies, critical annotations, and a personal familial archive, this space serves as an active logbook of a research journey exploring film materiality as a defensive shield, preserved and reactivated as an alchemical counter-history against corporate erasure
REFUSAL
ALCHEMY
NAVIGATION GUIDE
Navigate these pages to explore a material history of film forged from memory and light. Use this logbook as a research companion to recover subversive narratives and marginalized visions hidden within the frame.
CRITICAL ANCHORS (ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHies)
CRITICAL REFLECTIONS
Epilogue (MINIDV TAPE EXCERPTS)