The BFI is celebrating the influential filmmaker, author, theorist and academic Laura Mulvey with its highest honour, a BFI Fellowship, and an accompanying season at BFI Southbank, Laura Mulvey: Thinking Through Film, a BFI Player collection and BFI educational events, season discussions and talks.
The BFI Fellowship honours Mulvey’s multi-faceted achievements over the last 50 years and the huge global impact of her work, making numerous significant interventions into the development of film culture, theory and visual language through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking. Best known as the author of the seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, which this year marks its 50th anniversary, Mulvey has also been a significant, generous presence in international independent film culture; influencing filmmakers, critics, writers, academics and educating generations of film students. Her inquisitive eye has seen her cast her own gaze on everything from classical Hollywood, world cinema, the avant-garde and more…