I write about girlhood, intimacy, dance, and the body. I’m especially interested in these themes across work directed by female and non-binary directors; I am additionally invested in narratives of autofiction within the documentary genre.
carlysmattox@gmail.com
- Little White Lies
- “The Language of Touch in The Age of Innocence”
- Written & Edited by Carly Mattox
- Produced by Adam Woodward
“Jane Campion Subverts the Violence of the Male Gaze”
Written & Edited by Carly Mattox
Produced by Adam Woodward
Sound Design by Lucas Lehmann
- The Brooklyn Rail
Ana Mendieta and Cuban Cinema
“Mendieta suggests violence with an absence of bodies and an emphasis on evidence, on viscera, on blood and ash and on materials that left behind once a body is consumed by the earth.”
Girls On Tops
A Tragic Age: The Radical Power Of Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Few love stories have been told and retold with as much vigour and contrversy as Lady Chatterley’s Lover, but Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s Netflix take on the classic focuses on the electric tension in the forbidden affair.”
We Owe Our Girlhood to Catherine Hardwicke
“Twilight will never be forgotten but this year it’s Catherine Hardwicke’s 2003 film Thirteen that stands out as a blueprint for girlhood on screen.”
BFI Online
Why Sally Potter’s Orlando is Still Radically in Fashion, 30 Years On
“Thirty years after its original release, Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando has become a touchstone for contemporary designers and fashion exhibitions.”
- Little White Lies
Our Body / Notre Corps (dir. Claire Simon)
“This carefully constructed mosaic lays bare a portrait of empathy, and perhaps without originally intending to, feels profoundly political.”
A Life on the Farm (dir. Oscar Harding)
“The film pays worthy tribute to its subject, despite a more conventional form.”
Sight & Sound
Charlotte (dir. Érich Warin, Tahir Rana)
“Charting the life of German Expressionist painter Charlotte Salomon, this animated feature lacks the complexity, vigour and imagination that characterise its subject’s best work.”
- Massive Cinema
- Creature (dir. Asif Kapadia)
Served as administrative assistant for artistic director of festival Dominique Green
Programmed film series in collaboration with the National Film and Television School, The Depot in Lewes, England, and Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge in Arabi, LA
Penda’s Fen (1974) dir. Alan Clarke
Eve’s Bayou (1997) dir. Kasi Lemmons
Dance for Pride
Paris Is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston
+ conversation with author Ricky Taylor
Assisted festival producer Paula Croxson