“I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game.”
Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman of Butte, Montana, published her diaries in 1902 and 1917. As an out queer proto-feminist at the turn of the century, MacLane became notorious upon the publication of her 1902 diary, I Await the Devil’s Coming. She was whisked away from the industrial hellscape of her copper mining Montana hometown to a life in the public eye as an author, journalist, female film pioneer and always a provocateur - sending up social norms throughout her career, with a special focus on staid notions about women and sexuality.
Between my flesh and the world’s fingers is an experimental essay and diary film primarily based on her published diaries and her film work.
Screening History
World Premiere: FIDMarseille
DokuFest Kosovo
Montana Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
RIDM
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
Scottish Queer International Film Festival
First Look, Museum of the Moving Image
Indie Grits
Lovers Film Festival Torino LGBTQI Visions
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
Visible Evidence
Queer Porto