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Reviews

“3.5 out of 4 Stars! Highly Recommended! Not once over the course of six hours does the film
seem self-indulgent: Fox’s soul-baring honesty feels both profound and universal.”
—Video Librarian, March-April 2008

“Luckily for the educational market, Ms. Fox offers the very best way to use her film in a classroom setting. She includes the full series of episodes in an Educational Package, plus discs that contain chunks of her longer film organized by topic. This is an excellent way…to spark discussion or serve as a writing prompt.”
- Educational Media Reviews Online

“What is interesting…is the cross-cultural perspective gained through the many interviews with women in other countries. The educational excerpts (one of two additional DVDs) are…the most useful, as they condense hours of the documentary into themed segments. Fox is to be commended for her candor and for the unique technique of ‘passing the camera’.”
- Library Journal

“In the age of reality TV, this documentary series merges the personal documentary with cultural criticism. Not only is the self reflection fascinating in terms of filmmaking, but Jennifer Fox confronts issues haunting women for decades here and abroad.”
- Marsha Rock, Director of Broadcast Journalism, New York University

“You could happily talk for days about Fox’s Flying: storytelling, filmmaking, genre, globalism, feminism, sexuality, family, repression, aging, love…I’m breathless. What a rich film! An elegant, engaging demonstration, in both form and content, of how the personal is political.”
- Lydia Foerster, The New School

“Jennifer Fox’s Flying should be REQUIRED VIEWING For every woman!”
-Candace Bushnell, Creator, SEX AND THE CITY

“Jennifer Fox’s work sneaks up on you… by turns brave, loving, naive and selfish, Fox embarks
on a three-year odyssey, training her lens on far-flung friends to ignite an intimate, yet global,
conversation on womanhood. Eavesdropping is rarely this rewarding. A- ”
-Entertainment Weekly

“By turns playful, sexy, tragic and contemplative, “Flying” is an
addictive soap about sexuality and sisterhood.”
-The New York Times

“MIRACULOUS! The nerve it takes to expose herself-and her friends, which is another issue-is matched by Fox’s ability to twist the confessional doc into a globetrotting highbrow soap opera. Brutally frank about the vagaries of her erotic romantic relationships… Fox ends up asking, straightforwardly, why woman can’t live the way so many men traditionally have. What she asks, obliquely, is why monogamy is so hard.
What she celebrates, in a subtler way still, is self-determination.”
-Variety

“Fox travels the globe to talk sex, marriage, babies, divorce, work, identity, oppression, socialization and abuse with her fascinating, far-flung friends. And their combined stories add up to something remarkable:
a kaleidoscopic meditation on gender-as-destiny”
-Los Angeles Times

Video Librarian Review
(March/April 2008)

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Rating: 3 1/2 out of 4 Stars

FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF FREE WOMAN is a six-part series (each episode is 60 mins., color) that takes a personal, experimental approach to female life in the 21st century. The series narratively and visually interweaves aspects of filmmaker Jennifer Fox’s own life over five years and across seventeen countries, as she struggles to understand how diverse women define their lives when there is no map. Employing an ingenious new camera technique called “Passing the Camera,” Fox creates a documentary language that mirrors the special way women communicate. Over intimate conversations around kitchen tables from South Africa to Russia, India and Pakistan, she initiates a groundbreaking dialogue among women, illuminating universal concerns across race, class and nationality.

FLYING searches for new models of femaleness, examining changing gender roles and the efforts of women everywhere to comprehend and define for themselves what it means to be a woman in these times. The film takes as a hypothesis that owning and controlling one’s own sexuality is the center of a woman’s power and self. It also hypothesizes that the inverse is true: if a woman does not control the emotional and sexual life of her own body, she cannot be fully empowered. The film raises the questions: What are the struggles of women in this era of new sexual and economic freedoms, shifting gender relations, a rise in religious fundamentalism and AIDS? Is there a new model of femaleness that we can now begin to define? Highly Recommended. (M. Johanson)