Riddles of the Sphinx is critically acclaimed and...

Riddles of the Sphinx is critically acclaimed and extremely hard to understand feature which uses several interesting perspective of story telling. This movie generalizes the broad topic of feminism in playful demonstration through camera lens. Interesting long 360 pans and close ups on Egyptian Sphinx makes the movie outstandingly unique and delicate. Mainly focused in a story of a mother, movie revolves around so many factors trying to make comparison between existing examples and feminism theory. In Riddles of the Sphinx Mulvey and Woolen create an altogether different project for the mother within the organizing system of the gaze. The film opens with a view of pages being turned from a book titled Myths of woman. This scene goes on†¦show more content†¦Pan moves us slowly along entire room and kitchen. This sense of being closer to the characters tends us to predict what might be the next move or who else or what else we could see in the house. We also see Louise and Anna outside the home, Louise at work as a phone operator at a switchboard and Anna at day care. Louise converses with other women workers, especially her friend Maxine, about their working conditions and the possibility of having child care on the worksite. Visible in the background of their break room is a poster depicting dunes within a desert scene an image reminiscent of the films opening desert scene with the woman as sphinx suggesting power and change from previous authority. In one of the following scenes, Louise’s ex-husband asks them to watch a film he is editing. Artist, writer and theorist Mary Kelly appears in the film reading from her journal about problems she is having regarding her son going to day care. She is wearing a dark shirt with lighter crescent shapes, the same that documents her own postpartum Project (1973-79) maternal project. At that time Kelly was in the midst of producing her groundbreaking project, whose concerns about the formation of a maternal space in language and culture dovetail with those being explored by Mulvey and Wollen. Riddles of the Sphinx also discusses on how social issues coexist with the psychic space of maternal. In a following scene the mothers