Feminist Video Art of the 70s-Olympia Film Festival

9 Nov 2007 - 3:30pm
Etc/GMT-7

Feminist Video Art of the 70s
Cine-X
Capitol Theater, Friday Nov. 9 at 3:30 PM
1970 / USA / 90 minutes / Digital Video

http://olympiafilmfestival.org/movieDetail.asp?id=44

The 70s were a time of social and technological revolution and women were its leaders. Advanced media technologies emerged in the 70s allowing many artists access to recording equipment in video and film for the first time. The opportunities this new-found access provided coincided with a strong desire amongst many women artists to incorporate the body into various modes of performance. The burgeoning time-based medium of video offered an ideal format for these endeavors, which set the foundation for the crucial role women have played in the development and progression of film and video over the past thirty-five years.

Join Colleen Dixon and Bridget Irish as they take you on a journey through an abbreviated survey of 70s feminist film and video art. Five seminal short works will be introduced and discussed in their historical and social context – audience participation is encouraged.

Vertical Roll
1972 / 20 min / b&w / sound
Director: Joan Jonas

Female Sensibility
1973 / 14 min / color / sound
Director: Lynda Benglis

Through the Large Glass
1976 / 10 min / color / silent / 16 mm film
Director: Hannah Wilke

The East Is Red, The West Is Bending
1977 / 20 min / color / sound
Director: Martha Rosler

Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
1978-79 / 6 min / color / sound
Director: Dara Birnbaum


Distributor web site: http://www.eai.org

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