Milan, 30^th August 2025 – A black woman wanders through a museum, carefully examining each painting, searching for something. In the background, a voiceover recites titles, describes paintings, and gradually reveals the place that Western art has often reserved for black female bodies. Another black woman wanders through the streets of Brooklyn, looking in wonder at the black women around her, living incarnations of the new Venus.

FRAGMENTS FOR VENUS, directed by the French filmmaker, Alice Diop, is the 30^th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales. The acclaimed short-film series invites today’s most profound and original female directors to investigate vanity and femininity in the 21^st century. In many ways, Fragments for Venus, is a film about ways of looking at looking, which has been central to feminist film theory from the 1970s onwards. “We — black people — come from this history of painting,” Alice explains, “in which we have been marginalized, objectified.” Her film wants to show that “we — artists, writers, thinkers — are here now. It attests to the way in which we are now ready to express ourselves.”

Alice Diop’s new episode for Women’s Tales premiered at the Venice Film Festival’s “Giornate degli Autori” on August 30^th 2025 alongside a screening of the 29^th episode, Autobiografia di una Borsetta by Joanna Hogg.

The short is available to stream on Miu Miu digital channels and on MUBI globally from September 15^th 2025.