What’s most true to you? How are you living it?
"So for me, what really interested me is the politics around reconstruction and what you do with your body. Body politics is a thing. What is that famous piece of art? The photo with the words, 'My body is a battleground.' That photo, when you are talking about women's bodies, says that everyone is allowed to have an opinion. What they should and shouldn't do with them. How they are supposed to look. What's going on? So breast cancer becomes this interesting intersection to talk about feminism to me. Body policing. How does this work? What is expected of us?" ~Emily Mackenzie, New Orleans based Director and Editor
Emily Mackenzie is a New Orleans based director and editor. Mackenzie is a graduate of Bard College and the New School’s Documentary Media Studies program. She has worked as a director, producer and editor for broadcast networks such as MTV, HBO, and Animal Planet and for documentary films - features and shorts - that have been screened at festivals internationally. She is currently working with US-based cancer advocate and vanguard Vonn Jensen on a documentary, entitled, Tapestries. Tapestries is a documentary series that chronicles the stories of individuals as they navigate their lives after a breast cancer diagnosis.
In an effort to change the discourse around breast cancer, this project offers alternative narratives to the mainstream depiction of ‘pink survivorship.’ By sharing the complicated stories of people navigating life after diagnosis, they question our culture’s relationship with cancer, femininity, gendered bodies, power, and survival. For more on Emily’s current project, please visit www.tapestriesdoc.com.