“The Many Ways to Avert One’s Eyes” is a 48-minute film essay that explores the various forms and political implications of an averted gaze, drawing on 10 films and an interview with my paternal grandmother recorded in 2016. The film deals with the structures of inheritance, on the one hand on a familial level in relation to my grandmother, who worked in a metal and former weapon-factory in Hungary, but also in relation to the inheritance of gaze politics, by subjecting films by directors who are part of the canon of European filmmaking to a critical re-reading from a gender-sensitive and anti-discriminatory perspective.