Episode #4 - Juliet Jacques

Cinéclub Podcast #4 is a conversation with Juliet Jacques. I wanted to talk to Juliet for a couple of reasons. Firstly she has written extensively and broadly about film, including work published by Sight and Sound, Criterion Current, Frieze, The Guardian, Novara Media and many more. Secondly I’m a big fan of her book Trans: A Memoir, published in 2015. The book started life as a series of blogs for the Guardian called Transgender Journey, which charted the process of Juliet’s transition, and incorporates trans history and critiques of trans representation, including in film.

In our conversation we discuss her formative experiences at the Cornerhouse cinema in Manchester and the Brighton Cinematheque; transgender representation in films such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s In a Year of 13 Moons and Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game; Rosa von Prauheim’s City of Lost Souls; the joys of Ubuweb; and the three films Juliet has made: Approach/Withdraw, which she co-directed with Ker Wallwork in 2016; You Will be Free from 2017, and the documentary Revivification from 2018.

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Show notes

Links below to some of the things we mention in the episode

* Juliet Jacques’ website

* Jean-Luc Godard Saved My Life

* Finding a Home in the Avant-Garde - on the London Filmmaker’s Co-Op

* (nostalgia)

* 10 Great Transgender Films - including The Crying Game

* City of Lost Souls

* Juliet’s book, Trans: A Memoir

* Juliet’s films

* Approach/Withdraw

* You Will Be Free

* Revivification

* Other films discussed in the episode

* The Crying Game BFI DVD/Blu-ray (liner notes contain an essay by Juliet)

* City of Lost Souls on BFI Player

* Clocktime Trailer (Stuart Pound, 1972)

* Speak (John Latham, 1962)

* (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971)

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