A manifesto of interiority

Spiritual Feminist Cinema is proposed here as a developing approach to film interpretation and creative practice, informed by the founder’s wider literary and philosophical work.

The person beyond the image

A woman on screen is more than an image, symbol or narrative function. Her thought, memory, agency and moral complexity deserve attention.

The interior journey

Transformation may occur without spectacle. Silence, restraint, ambiguity and self-recognition can carry a film's deepest meaning.

Dignity and ethical representation

Film criticism should ask not only what is depicted but how a person is framed, witnessed and understood.

Spirituality as an open inquiry

Spiritual experience is approached as a subject of inquiry, not as a requirement of religious belief or a claim that any one tradition defines women's experience.

Dialogue with existing scholarship

This framework seeks dialogue with feminist film theory, rather than claiming to replace its long intellectual history.

Read the founding publication

This editorial introduction accompanies Mukata Dangi’s paper Spiritual Feminist Cinema, deposited on Zenodo on 5 January 2026. The repository preserves the author’s original text.