Open Process Series: Clips and Conversation - 'THE HERETICS' and 'WOMEN ART REVOLUTION'

Tue, Mar 2 | 7pm | $5 - $15 (FREE for current Intersection and/or BAWFM Members)

Bay Area Women in Film and Media and Intersection for the Arts are proud to present a cinematic evening of "Clips and Conversation" featuring a sneak peak at two new soon-to-be released documentary films: THE HERETICS and WOMEN ART REVOLUTION - both focusing on aspects of the feminist art movement and feminist art pioneers.

THE HERETICS (www.heresiesfilmproject.org) by filmmaker Joan Braderman reveals the inside story of Heresies, a feminist art collective that was the epicenter of the 1970s art world in Lower Manahattan.

WOMEN ART REVOLUTION, (http://www.womenartrevolution.com - now in post-production and to be completed in Spring of 2010), by acclaimed Bay Area artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson, reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times.

Join our featured guests for a rare opportunity to not only view sneak peaks of clips from these two, exciting new documentaries but also take part in an intimate, post-screening discussion about the making of these films and the art and politics surrounding the feminist art movement.

FEATURED GUESTS:

Crescent Diamond, Producer, THE HERETICS

Lynn Hershman Leeson (invited guest), Writer/Director/Producer/Editor, WOMEN ART REVOLUTION

Margaret Harrison (invited guest), Artist, The Bodies Are Back

Jillian Sandell, Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University

Simone Nelson, Moderator and President, Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIFM)

ABOUT THE HERETICS
THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of the Women's Movement for the first time in a feature film or video. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971. By chance, she joins a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970s art world in lower Manhattan. In her first person account, THE HERETICS charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out.

The hundreds of collective members, now scattered around the globe are accomplished artists, writers, architects, painters, filmmakers, designers, editors, curators, and teachers. Twenty-four of these women, speak intimately with the filmmaker about the extraordinary times they shared, challenging the terms of gender and power and re-imagining the lives of generations to come. http://www.heresiesfilmproject.org/

ABOUT JOAN BRADERMAN:
Joan Braderman holds a B.A. from Harvard and M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from New York University. Her award-winning documentaries and art videos (such as Joan Does Dynesty, 1986 and Joan Sees Stars, 1992) have been shown on PBS, cable, in galleries, at festivals, and at universities internationally and are in the permanent collections of museums such as the Stedelijk, Amsterdam; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

ABOUT WOMEN ART REVOLUTION:
Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed the art and culture of our times. http://www.womenartrevolution.com

ABOUT LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON:
Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in an era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds. Her influential early ventures into performance and photography are also featured in the current touring exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist
Revolution, organized by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. .

ABOUT BAY AREA WOMEN IN FILM AND MEDIA (BAWIFM):
Bay Area Women in Film & Media (BAWIFM) is a non-profit organization that actively provides networking, education and volunteer events for women mediamakers in the San Francisco Bay Area. We offer creative and professional support to our members through monthly meetings, special events and an active on-line community. We work with individual film, television, and mediamakers, and local organizations and business that help women connect, create and be inspired. Whether you are just launching your professional career or are an established, award winning artist, BAWIFM is a talented, social and supportive network of women in media. As a Chapter of Women in Film & Media International (WIFTI), our members are also connected to a global network comprised of some 37 Women in Film Chapters worldwide with over 10,000 members, dedicated to advancing professional development and achievement for women working in all areas of film, video, and other screen-based media. http://www.bawifm.org

ABOUT THE BODIES ARE BACK
Margaret Harrison, revisits the themes of her very early work exploring notions of the human body as an object of sexuality, consumption, and gaze. In 1971, Harrison's work was instantly met with controversy and antagonism (the London police shut down her first solo exhibition the day after it opened feeling that its contents were too controversial). Now an established artist with work in the permanent collections of major international institutions, she is critically re-engaging with this body of work, continuing the dialogue that she began four decades ago. The Bodies Are Back is at Intersection for the Arts through March 27, 2010.

ABOUT MARGARET HARRISON 

Margaret Harrison, renowned British artist and pioneer of feminist art, has produced bodies of work dealing with homeworkers, rape, domestic abuse, war's impact on women, fame and celebrity status, and beauty as depicted by the cosmetics industry. Harrison has been featured in over 20 solo exhibitions. Her work is in the public collections of the Tate Gallery, Arts Council of England, Künsthaus Zurich, Victoria & Albert Museum, U.C. Davis and Manchester Metropolitan University Harrison. She also recently participated in the 11th International Istanbul Biennial in Fall 2009 as the only British artist and in WACK:Art and the Feminist Revolution. She lectures and shows her work internationally, mainly in North America and the UK, but also Germany, Holland, Austria Australia Canada and China, most recently at Cornerhouse Manchester in the Intertwining Line and Drawing Review at the Ronald Feldman gallery New York. 

Location

Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

More Information

rebeka@theintersection.org, (415) 626-2787 x108

Links

Women Art Revolution at Clips & Conversation
March 1, 2010 - Emily Goligoski, The San Franista - Culture coverage by Emily Goligoski

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