The first thing one is liable to notice while watching A Woman Escapes, a feature-length collaboration between Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, and Blake Williams, is that the film comprises three image formats: 16mm, 3D, and 4K. The second is that each format roughly corresponds to the contribution of one of the co-directors. In her shorts and features, Bohdanowicz utilizes a handmade style that has come to be associated with 16mm formats; Toronto-based experimental filmmaker (and contributor to this very magazine) Williams is, next to Ken Jacobs, arguably the foremost proponent of 3D in an experimental film context; and Çevik, the Turkish director of Belonging (2019), here assumes responsibility for the 4K.
At the beginning of the film, we are introduced to three main characters, Blake, Burak and Audrey (the latter played by Deragh Campbell, Bohdanowicz’s frequent performative surrogate), through a series of video correspondences that the co-director’s onscreen alter egos exchange
