cléo

A decade ago (!!!) today, the first issue of cléo journal went online. From 2013 to 2019, countless people helped keep this publication running as we strove to publish fresh film criticism from feminist perspectives.

A decade on (!!!), our website needs a bit of work and we’d love if you celebrated this anniversary by buying a copy of our beautiful reader. (Cover by Jazzmyn Coker and design by .) The funds go to digital preservation and web fees.

Swipe for a few classic covers and order your own reader at the link in bio. Donations are also accepted via PayPal linked at cleojournal.com

Covers

vol. 1, issue 1: flesh
spring 2013
By us on clipart 🤣

vol. 2, issue 1: crave
spring 2014
By

vol. 3, issue 2: camp
summer 2015
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vol. 4, issue 2: lol!
summer 2016
By

vol. 4, issue 3: firsts
winter 2016
By

vol. 5, issue 1: soft
spring 2017
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vol. 5, issue 2: shorts
summer 2017
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vol. 5, issue 3: hot
winter
By .s.brar

vol. 6, issue 1: varda
spring 2018
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Some news! We've been quiet for the past while as we've been working on our print compendium 📚 (Remember, the one made possible by Barry Jenkins that will celebrate some of our best writing over our six-year run?) Good news! "The cléo reader: 2013-2019" will be on sale starting NEXT WEEK!!! Our store will be up soon so stay tuned 🛍️

An oral history of cléo: from a ‘semi-formed’ e-mail to a landmark Canadian journal of film and feminism to a victim of Ontario arts funding cuts Inspired by Agnes Varda and realized by a collective of passionate and curious cinephiles, cléo started a conversation on film and feminism that too few were having. To mark the publication’s closing, and its critical impact on film discourse in Canada and beyond, The Globe and Mail presents an a...

Check out this piece by our editor Chelsea Phillips-Carr on the film BETTY BLUE 💙 for The Criterion Collection.

Betty Blue: The Look of Love Betty Blue: The Look of Love By ​Chelsea Phillips-Carr On Film / Essays — Nov 19, 2019 On Film Essays Features Interviews Visual Analysis Short Takes In Theaters The Daily Inside Criterion Sneak Peeks Tech Corner Criterion Designs Production Notes Top 10 Lists Closet Picks FYI On the Channel In ...

In our ✨ new blog ✨ we're thrilled to bring you an oral history of the Scarborough Pictures Episodic Directing Program––which provides opportunities to Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) filmmakers to shadow directors on the acclaimed CBC documentary series "In the Making".

"The More Honest We Are, The More Useful It Is": A Brief Oral History of the Scarborough Pictures Episodic Directing Program | cléo An interview with Amar Wala, Chelsea McMullan, Sherien Barsoum, and Isa Benn about the Scarborough Pictures Episodic Directing Program.

For the Open City Documentary Festival, cléo's Cathleen Evans delved into Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s MS SLAVIC 7, looking at the film’s approach to identity and ancestral legacy.

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Open City Documentary Festival 2019 - Focus: MS Slavic 7, Identities in a Microscope - Open City Documentary Festival Continuing our series, Cathleen Evans delves into Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s MS Slavic 7, looking at the film’s approach to identity and ancestral legacy. Much of MS Slavic 7 takes place around the edges of an anniversary party. Amidst the din of cutlery and soft drone of conversati...