Director Archives - Infinite Women

Martha Ansara

Martha Ansara was one of the first women in Australia to work as a cinematographer.

Gillian Armstrong

Gillian Armstrong was the first woman in Australia to direct a feature length film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.

Author and filmmaker who founded Reel Sisters of the Diaspora in 1997. Based in Brooklyn, the annual film festival and lecture series showcases films produced, directed, and written by women of color.

Maya Deren

At a time when American filmmaking fell into the category of either classical Hollywood or realist documentary, Maya Deren conceived of a third, poetic, alternative.

Ruth Berlau

Danish writer

Lynn Goldsmith

Photographer Lynn Goldsmith fought her copyright claim against Warhol’s estate (the Andy Warhol Foundation) all the way to the Supreme Court – and won.

Susan Sontag

American writer and critic

Ray Eames

While Charles Eames was the public face of their architecture and furniture design partnership, he was always quick to acknowledge his wife, Ray, as an equal, or even superior, saying “Anything I can do, Ray can do better.”