Between my flesh and the world's fingers

Between my flesh and the world’s fingers (2018)

“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