Selina Robertson, Author at The F-Word

From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and the London Film-makers’ Co-op

Selina Robertson23 September 2016

Selina Robertson previews From Reel to Real, Tate Modern's celebration of feminist fimmaking...

“It was such a laugh!” Writer Nell Dunn in conversation

Selina Robertson7 June 2016

Selina Robertson interviews Nell Dunn, novelist and the screenwriter behind Ken Loach’s first feature film Poor Cow, as the 1967 classic is re-released in cinemas...

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All shiny surfaces, no feeling

Selina Robertson13 November 2015

Selina Robertson appreciates the sophisticated beauty of Todd Haynes’ Carol but blames it for draining the film’s affective energy...

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Experimental filmmaking: Chick Strand is coming to Tate Modern

Selina Robertson9 November 2015

Why is Tate Modern about to screen a retrospective of one of the most significant feminist film-makers from the LA scene of the 1960s and 1970s? Selina Robertson talks to curator George Clark to find out...

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Campbell X on Stud Life

Selina Robertson30 August 2013

Selina Robertson talks to British queer filmmaker Campbell X about her first feature, gay-lesbian friendships and how buying flowers for a lover is a feminist thing ...

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As lesbian space alien as it gets

Selina Robertson21 December 2012

Selina Robertson reviews New Yorker Madeleine Olnek's debut feature and chats to the director about sci-fi B-movies from the 1950s and the advantages of video over film ...

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Joanna Hogg: a very British outsider

Selina Robertson24 May 2012

Paying close attention to director Joanna Hogg's creative process, Selina Robertson praises the filmmaker's two feature films as both truly independent and of great import for the British cinematic landscape ...

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9 Bob Note: short films showcasing new queer cinema

Selina Robertson8 February 2012

Selina Robertson reviews the queer shorts programme shown during this year's London Short Film Festival and finds all the mini-flicks passing her rigorous selection ...

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Break my fall

Selina Robertson28 July 2011

For those who can appreciate an at times painful study of relationship falling apart set in contemporary Hackney, the latest Harry Potter will be no competitor for Kanchi Wichmann's Break My Fall, suggests Selina Robertson ...

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