Féminisites – At a Glance
2026 · 2m · Canada
Directed by Anne-Lovely Etienne
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, provocative
Anne-Lovely Etienne traces her ON FILME inquiry into online dating to a story shared in the Facebook group 'Are We Dating the Same Guy?' She introduces a discussion of gender-based violence, platform liability, and digital sisterhood.
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A 2-minute essay that *could* have been a TikTok manifesto instead becomes something more unsettling—Etienne treats viral testimony like primary source material, which is either the most obvious move or genuinely subversive depending on whether you think the form itself is complicit. Either way, it refuses to let you settle into comfortable outrage.
Etienne's inquiry sits squarely in the lineage of feminist essay cinema—Agnès Varda's self-interrogation, Harun Farocki's archival skepticism—but her compression of 'Are We Dating the Same Guy?' into a 2-minute meditation on platform liability and collective testimony feels like formal rigor meeting urgent contemporary content; the brevity *is* the argument.
The real move here is treating a Facebook group not as subject matter but as a compositional constraint: every formal decision—the pacing, what gets quoted, what stays opaque—hinges on the decision to let the group's own language do the heavy lifting rather than narrate over it, and that restraint transforms gossip into evidence.