!Woman Art Revolution! - Special Panel Discussion post screening
Feb 4
Saturday 1:15pm ONLY!
Lynn Hershman Leeson - 2010 - 83m - ALL SEATS $7
Panelists will include Marya Errin Jones, Erin Adair-Hodges and V. Gina Diaz ! This discussion will be moderated by Sarah Skenazy.
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.
For more than forty years, filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust, Strange Culture) has collected a plethora of interviews with her contemporaries—and shaped them into an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large. With a rousing score by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, !W.A.R. features Miranda July, The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro, Marcia Tucker and countless other groundbreaking figures.
“These interviews form the backbone of !W.A.R., and like the film, they’re passionate, contentious, funny, sincere, politically attuned.... Ms. Hershman Leeson’s fighting spirit is contagious.” - Rachel Saltz, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Stunning!” - Shirley J Velasquez, ELLE.COM
“Could not be timelier!” - Marcia G Yerman, ALTERNET
“Leeson's women are our own; their voices are essential.” - Hilton Als, THE NEW YORKER
“Fiercely self-aware!” - Guelda Voien, MS. MAGAZINE
“Whether you’re an art aficionado or not, you simply must see and experience this revolutionary and visionary film for yourself. !Women Art Revolution reclaims women’s narratives and manifests a vocal group of dissenters rattling the cages of constriction and conformity, refusing to be silenced.” - Megan Kearns, BITCH FLICKS
