Quiet Pictures

Sarah Artt is Lecturer in English and Film at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. Her research interests include screen adaptations, silence in the cinema, and the representation of women in public. Her work has appeared in Scope, In Media Res, and multiple edited collections.

• Introduction: More Than Absence: Silences in the Cinemas of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovic1. Childhood, Curiosity and Compliance in Innocence, Evolution and Tomboy2. Adolescence and Collaborative Queer Gazes in Waterlilies/Naissance des Pieuvres, and Girlhood/Bande des Filles3. Artist-Exhibitionists and Silence as Utopian Space in Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar and Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition4. Sinister Silences and Mothering in Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin and Lucile Hadžhalilovic's Evolution5. Silenced Desire and Anger in Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated, Archipelago and ExhibitionAfterword Acknowledgements References Index

In Quiet Pictures, Sarah Artt argues that silence in film is vitally important, especially to our understanding of women’s and femme-presenting people’s experiences. Artt explores silence through the work of four filmmakers–Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovic–who have been hitherto critically undervalued, a state of affairs that this book triumphantly corrects. Through close analysis of a range of their films, Artt helps us to understand how silence can work as erasure, as unwitting complicity, as resistance, and in many other ways–all of which reveal resoundingly how silence relates to power. Most thrillingly, silence, in Artt’s assessment, “becomes a rich space of potential,” for redefining gender, identity, and how people relate to one another. A terrific book.