Based on footage Fernanda Pessoa and Adriana Barbosa recorded during Covid, this film celebrates female empowerment. It falls short of the pioneers it pays tribute to, but it’s an earnest snapshot of the pandemic
A feminist homage; a visual record of female friendship; a political collage. Fernanda Pessoa and Adriana Barbosa’s documentary is all this and more. Based in São Paulo and Los Angeles, the two film-makers are separated by geographical distance and 2020 Covid restrictions, circumstances that trigger a chain of audiovisual correspondence in lieu of texts and emails.
Explicitly inspired by the works of feminist film-makers such as Carolee Schneemann and Cheryl Dunye, Swing and Sway tries to create a cinematic haven from the rise of rightwing politics.
A feminist homage; a visual record of female friendship; a political collage. Fernanda Pessoa and Adriana Barbosa’s documentary is all this and more. Based in São Paulo and Los Angeles, the two film-makers are separated by geographical distance and 2020 Covid restrictions, circumstances that trigger a chain of audiovisual correspondence in lieu of texts and emails.
Explicitly inspired by the works of feminist film-makers such as Carolee Schneemann and Cheryl Dunye, Swing and Sway tries to create a cinematic haven from the rise of rightwing politics.
- 9/4/2023
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
Naomi Pacifique is a filmmaker who stood out to Dn when we first caught her short film after a room as part of the London Film School’s graduate showcase earlier in the year. Amongst a plethora of innovative and exciting student films, Pacifique’s short left an indelible mark as it was unlike anything else screening in the best way. Her short, which won the Pardino d’Argento Swiss Life at Locarno Film Festival and premieres with Dn today, is a lucid and sensual film about the exploration of the body between two lovers in their apartment. Pacifique stars in the film and weaves footage of her younger self amongst the tactile encounters, creating a thought-provoking excavation of our ongoing relationship with ourselves and our bodies. You can watch after a room below and follow it up with our in-depth chat with Pacifique where she reveals her intentions for the film,...
- 11/22/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
Trixi (1971).“When I first saw Steve’s films, I actually very often had to leave the cinema,” Laura Mulvey once recalled. Dwoskin’s shorts and early features, shown in alternative venues around London in the late 1960s and early ’70s, tended to show a woman alone in a room, often naked, responding to the camera, sometimes seducing it: Alone (1964), Soliloquy (1964/7), Take Me (1969), Moment (1969), and Girl (1971)... At the time she saw them, Mulvey was working on what became her famous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” published in 1975. Having been repelled at first, she began to find that Dwoskin’s films “opened a completely new perspective for me on cinematic voyeurism.” The first draft included a section discussing them, particularly the half-hour Trixi (1971), an “overtly ‘voyeuristic’ film” in which the seduction is consummated. In Mulvey’s words, Dwoskin’s handheld camera facilitated his “intimate involvement as an equal participant in the erotic drama,...
- 6/16/2022
- MUBI
The denizens of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences need to get their eyesight checked. 2019 was another watershed year for women on and off-screen, even if the accolades accrued at the Golden Globes and Oscars did not reflect it. Greta Gerwig released her highly anticipated Little Women, Olivia Wilde made her directorial debut with the sassy, Gen Z Booksmart, Big Little Lies Season 2 aired on HBO, and a slew of films ushered in a horror renaissance featuring astonishing female leads including Florence Pugh in Midsommar and Lupita Nyong’o in Us. But 2019 also marked a year of great loss: the prolific filmmaker Barbara Hammer passed away, as did luminary Agnès Varda and the performance artist and experimental filmmaker, Carolee Schneemann. Which is to say, women were in the news when it came to cinema; some of us just had to know where to look.
While feminist film theory from...
While feminist film theory from...
- 3/8/2020
- by jbindeck2015
- Den of Geek
Mike Kuchar, Manuel DeLanda And Carolee Schneemann At Redcat | 631 W 2nd St.
For fans of classic experimental cinema, there are three screenings to make note of this month at downtown’s Redcat theater. First, on Feb. 3, is a program of films by twin brothers Mike and George Kuchar. Legends of the 1960s New York Underground, the Kuchars produced a series of delightfully perverse re-imaginings of Hollywood melodramas that did as much as any films of that era to advance notions of camp and queer representation in cinema. Mike Kuchar himself will be in person to discuss the program,...
For fans of classic experimental cinema, there are three screenings to make note of this month at downtown’s Redcat theater. First, on Feb. 3, is a program of films by twin brothers Mike and George Kuchar. Legends of the 1960s New York Underground, the Kuchars produced a series of delightfully perverse re-imaginings of Hollywood melodramas that did as much as any films of that era to advance notions of camp and queer representation in cinema. Mike Kuchar himself will be in person to discuss the program,...
Mike Kuchar, Manuel DeLanda And Carolee Schneemann At Redcat | 631 W 2nd St.
For fans of classic experimental cinema, there are three screenings to make note of this month at downtown’s Redcat theater. First, on Feb. 3, is a program of films by twin brothers Mike and George Kuchar. Legends of the 1960s New York Underground, the Kuchars produced a series of delightfully perverse re-imaginings of Hollywood melodramas that did as much as any films of that era to advance notions of camp and queer representation in cinema. Mike Kuchar himself will be in person to discuss the program,...
For fans of classic experimental cinema, there are three screenings to make note of this month at downtown’s Redcat theater. First, on Feb. 3, is a program of films by twin brothers Mike and George Kuchar. Legends of the 1960s New York Underground, the Kuchars produced a series of delightfully perverse re-imaginings of Hollywood melodramas that did as much as any films of that era to advance notions of camp and queer representation in cinema. Mike Kuchar himself will be in person to discuss the program,...
Carol Wikarska Titelman, director of publications during the early days of Lucasfilm, died on Dec. 7 in her New York apartment. She was 73.
Titelman died following complications with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement released on her behalf.
Titelman began her career at Lucasfilm answering phones in the months before “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’s” release. She rose to head three key departments — art, publishing and creative services, including all photography and negotiations of book deals — in support of George Lucas’ original trilogy. In the late ’70s, she aided the creation of art-focused books, particularly with editorial work on “The Art of Star Wars.”
#ThisDayInStarWarsHistory
Jan 14, 1997 – The Art of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is reissued, with updated artwork from the Special Editions. The book had originally been released in 1979, and republished in 1994.#StarWars pic.twitter.com/xaThgbIdsa
— Less Than 12 Parsecs (@TwelveParPod) January 14, 2018
As Titleman’s most ambitious project,...
Titelman died following complications with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement released on her behalf.
Titelman began her career at Lucasfilm answering phones in the months before “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope’s” release. She rose to head three key departments — art, publishing and creative services, including all photography and negotiations of book deals — in support of George Lucas’ original trilogy. In the late ’70s, she aided the creation of art-focused books, particularly with editorial work on “The Art of Star Wars.”
#ThisDayInStarWarsHistory
Jan 14, 1997 – The Art of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is reissued, with updated artwork from the Special Editions. The book had originally been released in 1979, and republished in 1994.#StarWars pic.twitter.com/xaThgbIdsa
— Less Than 12 Parsecs (@TwelveParPod) January 14, 2018
As Titleman’s most ambitious project,...
- 12/12/2019
- by LaTesha Harris
- Variety Film + TV
NEWSCarolee Schneemann by Lynne SachsThe great Carolee Schneemann has died, gifting us with an inimitable legacy as a trailblazing avant-garde feminist filmmaker, painter, cat lover, performance artist, and much more. Lynne Sachs's 2017 documentary, Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor, previously screened on Mubi in partnership with the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Read Sachs's introduction of the short film, and recollection of a life's friendship with Schneemann, here.The master film editor Thelma Schoonmaker has announced plans to publish the diaries of her late husband, filmmaker Michael Powell (The Red Shoes). "I want people to be able to read about all the great movies we lost," she states. "The ones he had hoped to make.” Recommended VIEWINGOlivier Assayas's satirical comedy on book publishing, the changing media landscape, and, of course, romantic coupling get a U.S. trailer.In the event of its new restoration, the controversial British dancehall cult-classic Babylon has a shining new trailer.
- 3/14/2019
- MUBI
In collaboration with the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Lynne Sachs' Carolee, Barbara, Gunvor (2017) is showing exclusively on Mubi from July 3 - August 2, 2018 as part of the series Competing at Oberhausen.There are so many different reasons that I start to make a film. With Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor, I never really started to make “a film,” but rather the film began to make itself, in a very different and somehow extraordinary kind of way. Beginning around 2015, I decided that I wanted, dare I say needed, to spend more time with a few dear friends who had had a profound impact on me as a filmmaker. I had never thought of Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson as mentors per se, but they had each taught me, over the course of three decades, something about the nature of living as an artist in a deep and meaningful way,...
- 7/12/2018
- MUBI
Hannah Kallenbach is a Brooklyn-based performance artist whose primary interest is in female grossness and exploring ways to reclaim the fetishization of her own body. She recently staged “Re:” at Vital Joint in Brooklyn, and "2 girls 1 hotdog" premiered at The Glove as part of The Exponential Festival. Hannah is associate directing the Shakespeare in the Square's food-fight-inspired production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream touring at the end of March through April.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being able to do whatever I want to do in a given moment without financial, social, political, psychological, or physical restraints.
What is your greatest extravagance?
I am learning to not spend as much money on my work, to use more trash or found items.
What is your current state of mind?
Make make make and document all that you make be young and embrace fucking up and have fun art...
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being able to do whatever I want to do in a given moment without financial, social, political, psychological, or physical restraints.
What is your greatest extravagance?
I am learning to not spend as much money on my work, to use more trash or found items.
What is your current state of mind?
Make make make and document all that you make be young and embrace fucking up and have fun art...
- 2/7/2018
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
The New York Police Department wants to question a woman who they say mailed stolen art back to the Museum of Modern Art, just days after it vanished.
Two photographs — estimated to be worth more than $105,000 dollars — were part of the exhibit Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting. The photos were first discovered missing on October 30th. There were no signs of forced entry into the museum, and authorities had no leads. The theft was not caught on video, and there appeared to be no witnesses.
But despite scant evidence, the photos have since been recovered. According to police, the pictures...
Two photographs — estimated to be worth more than $105,000 dollars — were part of the exhibit Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting. The photos were first discovered missing on October 30th. There were no signs of forced entry into the museum, and authorities had no leads. The theft was not caught on video, and there appeared to be no witnesses.
But despite scant evidence, the photos have since been recovered. According to police, the pictures...
- 11/14/2017
- by Steve Helling
- PEOPLE.com
The Very Eye of Night is a series of columns on non-binary and female avant-garde film and video artists. The title refers to Maya Deren’s last completed film. Anthology Film Archives in New York presents a five-program retrospective of Carole Roussopoulos’s videos from November 7–9, 2017. The screenings will be introduced by Nicole Fernández Ferrer, director of the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center.Carole Roussopoulos, 1970. Photo by Guy Le Querrec.Jean-Luc Godard wrote a letter to Carole Roussopoulos in 1979 for Cahiers du cinéma in which he reflected on the motivations behind making films, and inquired: “Sometimes I wonder what has happened to all you have filmed in the four corners of France and the world… And I wonder why people in cinema want to film others with so much frenzy.” As Nicole Brenez recalls, the Swiss filmmaker responded to him: “to privilege the approach of those without a voice.” Carole Roussopoulos...
- 11/7/2017
- MUBI
The streets of New York City are a constantly changing, adventurous and sometimes dangerous environment. But that doesn’t bug photographer Carrie Boretz, who has been snapping the scenes and characters of the Big Apple for more 40 years.
In her new book, Street, she highlights some of her favorite images from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. From the parties with Andy Warhol at Studio 54 to covering the reactions of John Lennon’s murder, Boretz has always been immersed in the intensity of New York City. Here, she talks about her storied career.
How did you get your start in photography?...
In her new book, Street, she highlights some of her favorite images from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. From the parties with Andy Warhol at Studio 54 to covering the reactions of John Lennon’s murder, Boretz has always been immersed in the intensity of New York City. Here, she talks about her storied career.
How did you get your start in photography?...
- 10/19/2017
- by Ben Trivett
- PEOPLE.com
While the pilot of the Amazon series “I Love Dick,” created by Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins, has been available to screen since last summer, the streaming service isn’t the only way to watch the show — at least, if you happened to be in Los Angeles recently for a full-day binge of the upcoming series.
Read More: Jill Soloway on the Audacity of ‘I Love Dick,’ and How It Might Create ‘Radical Feminist Sleeper Cells’
“I Love Dick,” based on the book by Chris Kraus, is an intense examination of what it means to be both a woman and a creator, seen through the lens of a female filmmaker named Chris (played by Kathryn Hahn) as she falls under the thrall of a stoic artist named Dick (Kevin Bacon). How this disrupts her marriage and her work is only one strand of the series, which features an eclectic ensemble...
Read More: Jill Soloway on the Audacity of ‘I Love Dick,’ and How It Might Create ‘Radical Feminist Sleeper Cells’
“I Love Dick,” based on the book by Chris Kraus, is an intense examination of what it means to be both a woman and a creator, seen through the lens of a female filmmaker named Chris (played by Kathryn Hahn) as she falls under the thrall of a stoic artist named Dick (Kevin Bacon). How this disrupts her marriage and her work is only one strand of the series, which features an eclectic ensemble...
- 5/5/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Her Silent SeamingPerhaps more than most other forms of cinema, experimental film and video is an auteur’s medium through and through. Since the production model for avant-garde work is almost exclusively artisanal, with a single individual (or possibly a duo or an artists’ collective) making the work from a studio context similar to that or a sculptor or photographer, it only makes sense to consider these works are expressions of an artist’s point of view. As such, those of us who regularly engage with experimental work will inevitably use the artist as the primary mode of categorization—who to keep track of, who seems promising, etc.But there’s a bit more to it. One of the greatest joys of avant-garde filmgoing, as any fan will tell you, is seeing an expertly curated program of films, be they new short works, recontextualized classics, or some combination thereof. A...
- 1/22/2016
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
Robert Adanto's documentary The F Word navigates the liminal space between 3rd and 4th wave feminism and between Irl and URL by capturing the work of Brooklyn-based artists who raise questions about self-representation, sexuality, and embodiment. Their work offers a glimpse of unbridled female power and sexual agency, and yet is not fully rooted in fantasy, often contending with the brutal realities of the male-dominated (art) world. Along with this dynamic cast of artists, The F Word includes commentary by scholars and professors alike -- including former Art in America senior editor Nancy Princenthal -- to add background and to contextualize the works and concepts he explores. After the premiere, three of the film's artists, Kate Durbin, Leah Schrager, and Katie Cercone will join the director in a post-screening panel discussion.
Adanto's film opens in silence with a close up of artist Leah Schrager's hot pink nails manipulating her camera,...
Adanto's film opens in silence with a close up of artist Leah Schrager's hot pink nails manipulating her camera,...
- 1/16/2016
- by webmaster
- www.culturecatch.com
More articles, videos and interviews commemorate the 40th anniversary of the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Also in today's roundup: Interviews with Philippe Grandrieux, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Mathieu Amalric, Ulrich Seidl and Carolee Schneemann, new books on Douglas Fairbanks and Richard Pryor, Jacques Rancière on Béla Tarr, Seijun Suzuki in Austin and news of forthcoming films by Asghar Farhadi, Wim Wenders and Walter Hill. Plus, the return of Star Trek, Abel Ferrara and Gaspar Noé in conversation—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/3/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
More articles, videos and interviews commemorate the 40th anniversary of the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Also in today's roundup: Interviews with Philippe Grandrieux, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey, Mathieu Amalric, Ulrich Seidl and Carolee Schneemann, new books on Douglas Fairbanks and Richard Pryor, Jacques Rancière on Béla Tarr, Seijun Suzuki in Austin and news of forthcoming films by Asghar Farhadi, Wim Wenders and Walter Hill. Plus, the return of Star Trek, Abel Ferrara and Gaspar Noé in conversation—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/3/2015
- Keyframe
Peter Labuza is celebrating the third anniversary of the launch of his excellent podcast, The Cinephiliacs, with a conversation with one of cinema's great talkers, James Gray, director of, for example, We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008) and The Immigrant (2013). Among the many topics covered in 85'44" is Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (1957). More interviews: Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, Bruno Dumont, Craig Baldwin, Debra Granik, Carolee Schneemann, Mia Hansen-Løve, Frank V. Ross, David Thorpe and Ana Lily Amirpour. » - David Hudson...
- 7/10/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Peter Labuza is celebrating the third anniversary of the launch of his excellent podcast, The Cinephiliacs, with a conversation with one of cinema's great talkers, James Gray, director of, for example, We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008) and The Immigrant (2013). Among the many topics covered in 85'44" is Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (1957). More interviews: Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, Bruno Dumont, Craig Baldwin, Debra Granik, Carolee Schneemann, Mia Hansen-Løve, Frank V. Ross, David Thorpe and Ana Lily Amirpour. » - David Hudson...
- 7/10/2015
- Keyframe
BAMcinématek’s 3D in the 21st century series features James Cameron's Avatar, Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language, Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Wim Wenders's Pina, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, works by Ken Jacobs, Jodie Mack and more. More writing on more goings on: Bruce Labruce and Carolee Schneemann in New York, Federico Fellini’s 8½ and Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight in London, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flowers of Shanghai in Los Angeles and more. » - David Hudson...
- 5/1/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
BAMcinématek’s 3D in the 21st century series features James Cameron's Avatar, Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to Language, Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Retribution, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Wim Wenders's Pina, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, works by Ken Jacobs, Jodie Mack and more. More writing on more goings on: Bruce Labruce and Carolee Schneemann in New York, Federico Fellini’s 8½ and Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight in London, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flowers of Shanghai in Los Angeles and more. » - David Hudson...
- 5/1/2015
- Keyframe
In a festival whose dedication to celluloid is readily apparent, why not declare it directly? And so one of the Vienna International Film Festival's Special Programs this year is a bastion of that most wonderful format, 16mm film. Programmed by Katja Wiederspahn and Haden Guest with an admirably variegated range, the programs were gathered around collective films, war films, sex films, expanded cinema, and more. Key to the section's expanse, which begins in the 1920s and touches every decade between here and there, is also in highlighting new work done in this increasingly outmoded, "out of date," and unprojectionable format. Included amongst these are films every bit as exciting as the history and canon "Revolution in 16mm" touches on: Jodie Mack's Razzle Dazzle (written about here), Richard Touhy's masterpiece of color Ginza Strip, and, most excitingly, a quartet of new films by Nathaniel Dorsky, the film poet who makes...
- 11/3/2014
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Early in the documentary Breaking the Frame, Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939) displays for the camera a headless chipmunk; we can infer the culprit through an abrupt edit from the bloody carcass to a cat sunning itself on a windowsill. Director Marielle Nitoslawska's faith in the power of imagery over pedantic exposition rewards the audience with a heady catalogue of Schneemann's luscious paintings, expressionistic collages, hand-illustrated journals, visceral photographs, and excerpts from her corporeal films. The chipmunk murder occurs in the upstate New York farmhouse where Schneemann has spent much of her adult life; crammed with artworks and mementos, it is almost as much a star of the documentary as the artist herself. (She is too forceful a presence to be a mere subject, and ...
- 1/29/2014
- Village Voice
On November 18 at the Academy Film Archive in Hollywood, California, Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Foundation presented a selection of experimental films that will be included on the upcoming DVD box set Treasures VI: Next Wave Avant-Garde.
A follow-up to the hugely popular Treasures IV box set, which was released in 2009, the new Treasures VI will focus primarily on the so-called “second wave” of avant-garde filmmakers of the ’70s and ’80s, many of whom were taught and influenced by the “first wave” of filmmakers found on Treasures IV. As such, Treasures VI will include work by lesser known and appreciated filmmakers from a typically overlooked period in underground film history.
Lambert announced at the event that Treasures VI will include 33 films by 28 filmmakers, then proceded to screen six of those films. Those six were:
A Trip to Indiana, dir. Curt McDowell and Ted Davis
Plumb Line, dir. Carolee Schneemann
Radio Adios,...
A follow-up to the hugely popular Treasures IV box set, which was released in 2009, the new Treasures VI will focus primarily on the so-called “second wave” of avant-garde filmmakers of the ’70s and ’80s, many of whom were taught and influenced by the “first wave” of filmmakers found on Treasures IV. As such, Treasures VI will include work by lesser known and appreciated filmmakers from a typically overlooked period in underground film history.
Lambert announced at the event that Treasures VI will include 33 films by 28 filmmakers, then proceded to screen six of those films. Those six were:
A Trip to Indiana, dir. Curt McDowell and Ted Davis
Plumb Line, dir. Carolee Schneemann
Radio Adios,...
- 11/19/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
November 18
7:30 p.m.
Linwood Dunn Theater
1313 Vine Street
Hollywood, California 90028
Hosted by: Academy Film Archive
Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Foundation will be on hand to present selections from the highly anticipated “Treasures VI” DVD collection, which will be focused on avant-garde and experimental films.
While the exact contents of Treasures VI have not been released yet, this screening is said to include work by Carolee Schneemann, Bruce Conner and Andrea Callard.
As this screening is part of the Academy Film Archives’s series on film preservation, Lambert will lead a discussion about the process and challenges of preserving avant-garde films.
A report on this screening event, including titles and descriptions of the films shown, can be found here.
Another article will be written when the contents of the Treasures VI box set is announced.
7:30 p.m.
Linwood Dunn Theater
1313 Vine Street
Hollywood, California 90028
Hosted by: Academy Film Archive
Jeff Lambert of the National Film Preservation Foundation will be on hand to present selections from the highly anticipated “Treasures VI” DVD collection, which will be focused on avant-garde and experimental films.
While the exact contents of Treasures VI have not been released yet, this screening is said to include work by Carolee Schneemann, Bruce Conner and Andrea Callard.
As this screening is part of the Academy Film Archives’s series on film preservation, Lambert will lead a discussion about the process and challenges of preserving avant-garde films.
A report on this screening event, including titles and descriptions of the films shown, can be found here.
Another article will be written when the contents of the Treasures VI box set is announced.
- 11/14/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation have awarded their annual Avant-Garde Masters Grants for 2012. The overall grant award, which equals $50,000, will help restore and preserve an impressive selection of classic experimental and avant-garde films from the 1950s and ’60s by five legendary underground filmmakers: Mike Kuchar, Gregory Markopoulos, Ian Hugo, Aldo Tambellini and Jud Yalkut.
This year’s grant award will be split among five different archivist organizations, each one working on a different filmmaker’s work.
Three filmmakers will have one film each preserved: The Temenos will be preserving Cycle VII of Gregory J. Markopoulos’ epic 22-cycle film Eniaios; Anthology Film Archives will be preserving one of Mike Kuchar‘s more obscure works, Green Desire (1965); and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be preserving Jud Yalkut’s Planes (1968), which features choreography by Trisha Brown.
Meanwhile, the Library of Congress has been awarded the opportunity to preserve...
This year’s grant award will be split among five different archivist organizations, each one working on a different filmmaker’s work.
Three filmmakers will have one film each preserved: The Temenos will be preserving Cycle VII of Gregory J. Markopoulos’ epic 22-cycle film Eniaios; Anthology Film Archives will be preserving one of Mike Kuchar‘s more obscure works, Green Desire (1965); and the Trisha Brown Dance Company will be preserving Jud Yalkut’s Planes (1968), which features choreography by Trisha Brown.
Meanwhile, the Library of Congress has been awarded the opportunity to preserve...
- 4/18/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
On the occasion of Joseph Nechvatal's upcoming exhibition at Galerie Richard in New York (April 12 through May 26), the recent publication of his new book Immersion into Noise, and a concert of his remastered viral symphOny in surround sound. Taney Roniger is an artist and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn.
Bradley Rubenstein: We really want to get into the new book, as well as the upcoming show, but can you take a minute and give us a little backstory? You have always slipped in and out of categories: actions, painting, sound art, writing....
Joseph Nechvatal: Well, when I was going to undergraduate art school at Southern Illinois University (Siu), I was making drawings and little gouaches and smaller-type paintings on paper, generally. And they were well-received. I was not so interested in painting on canvas at the time. You have to put it in the perspective of the...
Bradley Rubenstein: We really want to get into the new book, as well as the upcoming show, but can you take a minute and give us a little backstory? You have always slipped in and out of categories: actions, painting, sound art, writing....
Joseph Nechvatal: Well, when I was going to undergraduate art school at Southern Illinois University (Siu), I was making drawings and little gouaches and smaller-type paintings on paper, generally. And they were well-received. I was not so interested in painting on canvas at the time. You have to put it in the perspective of the...
- 3/29/2012
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Feb. 11
5:00 p.m.
Microscope Gallery
4 Charles Place
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Hosted by: Microscope Gallery
Throughout the month of February, Brooklyn’s Microscope Gallery will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of NYC’s Film-makers’ Cooperative, the oldest and largest artist-run coop in the world. While the opening reception for this special exhibit will be at 7:00 p.m. on Feb. 11, at 5:00 p.m. will be a special screening of rare 16mm films by the legendary Jack Smith.
Ironically, Smith would probably be furious about this special event if he were still alive, thanks to his severe falling out with the Coop’s founder Jonas Mekas. But, with several new 16mm prints of many of his “lost” films, this event promises to be one of the premiere avant-garde screenings of 2012. So, screw Jack. The films that will be screening are: Respectable Creatures, Song for Rent, Hot Air Specialists, Overstimulated, Scotch Tape,...
5:00 p.m.
Microscope Gallery
4 Charles Place
Brooklyn, NY 11221
Hosted by: Microscope Gallery
Throughout the month of February, Brooklyn’s Microscope Gallery will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of NYC’s Film-makers’ Cooperative, the oldest and largest artist-run coop in the world. While the opening reception for this special exhibit will be at 7:00 p.m. on Feb. 11, at 5:00 p.m. will be a special screening of rare 16mm films by the legendary Jack Smith.
Ironically, Smith would probably be furious about this special event if he were still alive, thanks to his severe falling out with the Coop’s founder Jonas Mekas. But, with several new 16mm prints of many of his “lost” films, this event promises to be one of the premiere avant-garde screenings of 2012. So, screw Jack. The films that will be screening are: Respectable Creatures, Song for Rent, Hot Air Specialists, Overstimulated, Scotch Tape,...
- 2/7/2012
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
DVD Release Date: March 20, 2012
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
The ladies talk it over in !Women Art Revolution.
The 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution illuminates the under-explored feminist art 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, !Women Art Revolution details developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the determination of the the pioneering artists of the time resulted in what is now widely regarded as one of the more significant art movements of the late 20th century.
The film was directed by artist/filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust), who tapped her archive of some 40-plus years of interviews she conducted with her contemporaries and molded then into a feature-length portrait.
Popping up in the movie are such female artists as Miranda July (The Future), The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer,...
Price: DVD $29.99
Studio: Zeitgeist
The ladies talk it over in !Women Art Revolution.
The 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution illuminates the under-explored feminist art 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, !Women Art Revolution details developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the determination of the the pioneering artists of the time resulted in what is now widely regarded as one of the more significant art movements of the late 20th century.
The film was directed by artist/filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust), who tapped her archive of some 40-plus years of interviews she conducted with her contemporaries and molded then into a feature-length portrait.
Popping up in the movie are such female artists as Miranda July (The Future), The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer,...
- 1/4/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
A new documentary looks back at the battle for recognition of figures including Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrila Girls
As Brooklyn-based artist Marni Kotak plans to give birth publicly in the name of art and Tacita Dean takes over the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern following Tracey Emin's much praised retrospective at the Hayward Gallery over the summer, it doesn't feel like a bad time for female artists. However, until recently it was a rare treat to find women's art in galleries at all, as a new documentary film shows.
!Women Art Revolution recalls the young American female artists of the 1960s who fought for change in a male-dominated art world. From Carolee Schneemann's radical performances, via Martha Rosier's brilliantly aggressive Semiotics of the Kitchen to the Guerrilla Girls' campaigns that shamed major art institutions, it shows how the personal became political.
Lynn Hershman Leeson, feminist artist...
As Brooklyn-based artist Marni Kotak plans to give birth publicly in the name of art and Tacita Dean takes over the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern following Tracey Emin's much praised retrospective at the Hayward Gallery over the summer, it doesn't feel like a bad time for female artists. However, until recently it was a rare treat to find women's art in galleries at all, as a new documentary film shows.
!Women Art Revolution recalls the young American female artists of the 1960s who fought for change in a male-dominated art world. From Carolee Schneemann's radical performances, via Martha Rosier's brilliantly aggressive Semiotics of the Kitchen to the Guerrilla Girls' campaigns that shamed major art institutions, it shows how the personal became political.
Lynn Hershman Leeson, feminist artist...
- 10/14/2011
- by Sarah Phillips
- The Guardian - Film News
Reviewed by Andra Zadnik
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
How many female artists can you name? Let’s try for three: Frida Kahlo — yeah, we all know her; Georgia O’Keeffe — good one … Any others? That is the very first question posed in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s documentary “!Women Art Revolution.” By the end of it, you may be able to not only name artists like Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls but also describe their work.
“!Women Art Revolution” follows a very basic format: talking heads that lead into video clips and back to talking heads again. Hershman-Leeson proudly states several times throughout the film that she has been compiling these interviews since the early 1960s when the feminist (art) movement began, and her effort and love of the project shows. “!Women Art Revolution” is, as she admits throughout, a compilation of her own art.
But the film,...
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
How many female artists can you name? Let’s try for three: Frida Kahlo — yeah, we all know her; Georgia O’Keeffe — good one … Any others? That is the very first question posed in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s documentary “!Women Art Revolution.” By the end of it, you may be able to not only name artists like Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls but also describe their work.
“!Women Art Revolution” follows a very basic format: talking heads that lead into video clips and back to talking heads again. Hershman-Leeson proudly states several times throughout the film that she has been compiling these interviews since the early 1960s when the feminist (art) movement began, and her effort and love of the project shows. “!Women Art Revolution” is, as she admits throughout, a compilation of her own art.
But the film,...
- 6/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Andra Zadnik
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
How many female artists can you name? Let’s try for three: Frida Kahlo — yeah, we all know her; Georgia O’Keeffe — good one … Any others? That is the very first question posed in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s documentary “!Women Art Revolution.” By the end of it, you may be able to not only name artists like Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls but also describe their work.
“!Women Art Revolution” follows a very basic format: talking heads that lead into video clips and back to talking heads again. Hershman-Leeson proudly states several times throughout the film that she has been compiling these interviews since the early 1960s when the feminist (art) movement began, and her effort and love of the project shows. “!Women Art Revolution” is, as she admits throughout, a compilation of her own art.
But the film,...
(June 2011)
Directed/Written by: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
How many female artists can you name? Let’s try for three: Frida Kahlo — yeah, we all know her; Georgia O’Keeffe — good one … Any others? That is the very first question posed in Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s documentary “!Women Art Revolution.” By the end of it, you may be able to not only name artists like Judy Chicago, Carolee Schneemann and the Guerrilla Girls but also describe their work.
“!Women Art Revolution” follows a very basic format: talking heads that lead into video clips and back to talking heads again. Hershman-Leeson proudly states several times throughout the film that she has been compiling these interviews since the early 1960s when the feminist (art) movement began, and her effort and love of the project shows. “!Women Art Revolution” is, as she admits throughout, a compilation of her own art.
But the film,...
- 6/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Janine Antoni is among the artists featured in “!Women Art Revolution”
Lynn Hershman Leeson is the quintessential Renaissance woman. Her artwork is held in numerous collections at galleries across the globe. Her work in new media earned her the Digital Art Museum in Berlin’s 2010 d.velop digital art award, the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Leeson’s films have screened at many of the world’s most renowned film festivals, and she has been a Sundance Screenwriter Lab Fellow and recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing the 2002 film “Teknolust.” Her latest effort, “!Women Art Revolution,” premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and is screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is a collection of 40 years’ worth of interviews with those who pioneered the feminist art movement. Here, she writes for Moving Pictures about how she came to make the film.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is the quintessential Renaissance woman. Her artwork is held in numerous collections at galleries across the globe. Her work in new media earned her the Digital Art Museum in Berlin’s 2010 d.velop digital art award, the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Leeson’s films have screened at many of the world’s most renowned film festivals, and she has been a Sundance Screenwriter Lab Fellow and recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing the 2002 film “Teknolust.” Her latest effort, “!Women Art Revolution,” premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and is screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is a collection of 40 years’ worth of interviews with those who pioneered the feminist art movement. Here, she writes for Moving Pictures about how she came to make the film.
- 6/1/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Janine Antoni is among the artists featured in “!Women Art Revolution”
Lynn Hershman Leeson is the quintessential Renaissance woman. Her artwork is held in numerous collections at galleries across the globe. Her work in new media earned her the Digital Art Museum in Berlin’s 2010 d.velop digital art award, the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Leeson’s films have screened at many of the world’s most renowned film festivals, and she has been a Sundance Screenwriter Lab Fellow and recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing the 2002 film “Teknolust.” Her latest effort, “!Women Art Revolution,” premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and is screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is a collection of 40 years’ worth of interviews with those who pioneered the feminist art movement. Here, she writes for Moving Pictures about how she came to make the film.
Lynn Hershman Leeson is the quintessential Renaissance woman. Her artwork is held in numerous collections at galleries across the globe. Her work in new media earned her the Digital Art Museum in Berlin’s 2010 d.velop digital art award, the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Leeson’s films have screened at many of the world’s most renowned film festivals, and she has been a Sundance Screenwriter Lab Fellow and recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for writing and directing the 2002 film “Teknolust.” Her latest effort, “!Women Art Revolution,” premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and is screening at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is a collection of 40 years’ worth of interviews with those who pioneered the feminist art movement. Here, she writes for Moving Pictures about how she came to make the film.
- 6/1/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Jan. 29
3:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 37 Street
Astoria, NY 11106
Hosted by: Museum of the Moving Image
Meditative contemplation gives way to barbaric chaos in this selection of classic avant-garde and experimental films from 1947 to 1976. Several of the makers and one of the stars of these short movies will be in attendance at the screening. They are: Millicent Brower, Larry Gottheim, and Carolee Schneemann.
What’s also interesting about this particular lineup is that not only do the films go from meditation to chaos, but their order is close to being neatly chronological. The most meditative film, Untitled by Norman Mailer, is from 1947 while the most chaotic, Jerry’s by Tom Palazzolo, is from 1976. Is that an unconscious statement about the historical progression of avant-garde film?
The screening will also repeat on Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. The full lineup is below:
Untitled, dir. Norman Mailer,...
3:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue at 37 Street
Astoria, NY 11106
Hosted by: Museum of the Moving Image
Meditative contemplation gives way to barbaric chaos in this selection of classic avant-garde and experimental films from 1947 to 1976. Several of the makers and one of the stars of these short movies will be in attendance at the screening. They are: Millicent Brower, Larry Gottheim, and Carolee Schneemann.
What’s also interesting about this particular lineup is that not only do the films go from meditation to chaos, but their order is close to being neatly chronological. The most meditative film, Untitled by Norman Mailer, is from 1947 while the most chaotic, Jerry’s by Tom Palazzolo, is from 1976. Is that an unconscious statement about the historical progression of avant-garde film?
The screening will also repeat on Jan. 30 at 5:30 p.m. The full lineup is below:
Untitled, dir. Norman Mailer,...
- 1/27/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
The Paul Sharits memorial website, run by his son Christopher, is looking for articles to post on art and music. Congrats to Stuart Simpson’s fantastic El Monstro Del Mar!, which has been picked up for distribution by IndieFilmNet. Careful, this one’s “dirty”: The great cartoonist/reviewer Rick Trembles covers Usama Alshaibi’s hilarious short film The Amateur. Then, Usama Alshaibi tackles the myth about Muslims not being able to render images of the prophets. J.J. Murphy tackles one of the most controversial movies of the last year or so, whether you knew it or not: Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers. Always a cause for rejoicing: Jonas Mekas announces a new film debuting in Feb.: Sleepless Nights Stories! A little background on the film from Jonas here. SXSW interviews fellow festival founder Lisa Vandever of Cinekink four questions about her upcoming interactive panel in Austin, TX. Professor...
- 1/23/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Jan 8
7:30 p.m.
UnionDocs
322 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: The Film-makers’ Cooperative
Curated by Coleen Fitzgibbon, Argument of the Eye is a collection of short films that were chosen based on “the artist’s strength of character.” They range from Fitzgibbon’s own 1973 film Trip to Carolee’s — about a trip to the home of fellow underground filmmaker Carolee Schneeman — to the 2010 film Defunct by Katie Torn — a dance film that has been modified video effects.
The title of this screening has been taken from the work of the English art critic John Ruskin, who wrote about the way the eye was able to intuitively discern beauty. This is a very diverge group of films, with many of the filmmakers in attendance for a post-screening discussion with Fitzgibbon. In attendance will be: Andrea Callard, Katy Martin, Sandra Gibson, Liza Bear, Susan Cox, and Katie Torn.
Below is the full lineup of films.
7:30 p.m.
UnionDocs
322 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: The Film-makers’ Cooperative
Curated by Coleen Fitzgibbon, Argument of the Eye is a collection of short films that were chosen based on “the artist’s strength of character.” They range from Fitzgibbon’s own 1973 film Trip to Carolee’s — about a trip to the home of fellow underground filmmaker Carolee Schneeman — to the 2010 film Defunct by Katie Torn — a dance film that has been modified video effects.
The title of this screening has been taken from the work of the English art critic John Ruskin, who wrote about the way the eye was able to intuitively discern beauty. This is a very diverge group of films, with many of the filmmakers in attendance for a post-screening discussion with Fitzgibbon. In attendance will be: Andrea Callard, Katy Martin, Sandra Gibson, Liza Bear, Susan Cox, and Katie Torn.
Below is the full lineup of films.
- 1/5/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Carolee Schneemann on 'Fuses' from Film Studies Center on Vimeo.
"Discerning moviegoers will barely have time to catch their breath this week amid the eclectic and heady mix of film festivals, retrospectives, classic movies and other cinematic treats screening around town." The town is Los Angeles and at the top of Susan King's roundup for the Times is the Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant-Garde Film Festival: "The opening program will feature Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, José Rodriguez-Soltero's Lupe and Carolee Schneemann's Fuses. Schneemann and Jonas Mekas, pioneers in the avant-garde, will participate in a panel discussion after the screening. Ken Jacobs, another veteran filmmaker, is also a guest at the festival." Today through Saturday.
"Discerning moviegoers will barely have time to catch their breath this week amid the eclectic and heady mix of film festivals, retrospectives, classic movies and other cinematic treats screening around town." The town is Los Angeles and at the top of Susan King's roundup for the Times is the Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant-Garde Film Festival: "The opening program will feature Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, José Rodriguez-Soltero's Lupe and Carolee Schneemann's Fuses. Schneemann and Jonas Mekas, pioneers in the avant-garde, will participate in a panel discussion after the screening. Ken Jacobs, another veteran filmmaker, is also a guest at the festival." Today through Saturday.
- 10/14/2010
- MUBI
Joaquin Phoenix's much-anticipated documentary I'm Still Here directed by Casey Affleck has something for everyone. A man on a journey, a fumble along the way, a cross roads, failure, and finally redemption. It's a beautiful piece of performance art. Carolee Schneemann and Karen Finley take note. There are very few actors who take risks to create gutsy statements on what goes on in our culture and I think this is one of them. I love the pseudo documentary aspect because really who is to say where the line starts and crosses from reality into fiction. I genuinely loved what he attempts to do, not in regard to a music career or leaving acting, which he never fully intends, but perhaps may have thought of on occasion when those nagging existential questions of meaning and pointlessness plagues us...
- 9/9/2010
- by Hellin Kay
- Huffington Post
So, I’m currently working on a big research project, the results of which won’t be seen unless you happen to be poring through Bad Lit’s sister site the Underground Film Guide — and the way that site is woefully under-updated, why would you?
The Ufg, as I like to call it, is a database project of underground filmmakers and films. Recently I decided to halt adding new entries and to make the old filmmaker entries I previously uploaded more comprehensive. One way I’m doing that is going through books on underground film and, if a filmmaker is written up in each book, I’ll add that book’s info to the filmmaker’s profile. If you’re interested and want an idea of what I’m talking about, go look at John Waters’ entry and scroll down to the book section.
One book that is a tremendous...
The Ufg, as I like to call it, is a database project of underground filmmakers and films. Recently I decided to halt adding new entries and to make the old filmmaker entries I previously uploaded more comprehensive. One way I’m doing that is going through books on underground film and, if a filmmaker is written up in each book, I’ll add that book’s info to the filmmaker’s profile. If you’re interested and want an idea of what I’m talking about, go look at John Waters’ entry and scroll down to the book section.
One book that is a tremendous...
- 4/17/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker? is Barbara Caspar's multi-layered work featuring animation, archival footage and interviews with the likes of William Burroughs, Carolee Schneemann and Richard Hell to make a thoughtful and creative film biography/essay on the late outlaw writer and punk icon, whose formally inventive novels, published from the ’70s through the mid-’90s, challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, and the literary canon.
The film screens on Sept 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 Pm as part of the Women Make Movies Film Festival in San Francisco, California, USA...
A beguiling and intensely contradictory figure, Acker is best known for books which creatively appropriated texts from Great White Male writers, retelling them in an emotionally raw, sexually blunt, and politically questioning female voice. With her conceptual art videos in the ’70s, her close-cropped dyed blond hair, her tattoos, and her piercings, Acker was a performance artist, proto riot grrl,...
The film screens on Sept 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 Pm as part of the Women Make Movies Film Festival in San Francisco, California, USA...
A beguiling and intensely contradictory figure, Acker is best known for books which creatively appropriated texts from Great White Male writers, retelling them in an emotionally raw, sexually blunt, and politically questioning female voice. With her conceptual art videos in the ’70s, her close-cropped dyed blond hair, her tattoos, and her piercings, Acker was a performance artist, proto riot grrl,...
- 8/25/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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