"As a female filmmaker and feminist, I have been exploring the female gaze for quite a while. I decided to visualize blood from a female gaze. Since we are little, we are told that blood is dirty and something bad. I gave birth at home to my two daughters, and this involved a lot of blood. We also kept their placentas and even did blood prints of them as to conserve memory of my daughters’ genetic twins. Our period, as women, is a blessing. I want to stress the positive aspect of blood as life giver. This is why in "Red Power" I honor the color red. As a film director, I am particularly interested in the camera's relationship with the female body. In this particular piece called "Oceanica I", I invited my husband to portray my body through his female gaze. Oceanica is a queen of the ocean. She comes out of the sea every month and dyes the coast with the red of her blood streaming out of her body. The blood gives life and light." - Josephine LF

Josephine Landertinger Forero is a film director and producer, artist, mother of two daughters, passionate about human rights, migration, diversity, gender equality and women’s empowerment. She has been working on these subjects since 2009. She is a member of the Colombian Academy of Motion Pictures (ACACC) in the specialty of Directing, member of Dones Visuals Catalonia, European Women’s Audiovisual Network, CIMA Spain and Girls Club Women & Hollywood. Her films have been shown in festivals around the world and won several awards. Josephine studied Film and Communication at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She specialized in German postwar cinema, Italian Neorealism, documentary cinema and journalism in armed conflicts.

This piece is part of the "Female Filmmakers - Female Gaze - Collective Collection" brought to life by film director and feminist Josephine Landertinger Forero. Josephine invited female artists from around the world to create a piece that shows their interpretation of what "female gaze" means to them or honor women working in the film industry. The female artists were free to choose which option to pick.