THE HERETICS Bay Area Premiere April 11th, 2010
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presented as Closing Night Film of the San Francisco Women's Film Festival at the Roxie Theater, April 11th, 7:15 PM
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA--March 12, 2010) The San Francisco Women's Film Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of THE HERETICS as its Closing Night film in celebration
of Women’s History Month. The screening takes place April 11 at 7:15 PM at the Roxie Theater, at 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. For tickets and information: 415-754-FILM (3456) or www.sfwff.com
THE HERETICS chronicles the twenty-year span of feminist art magazine HERESIES. Filmed across the globe, THE HERETICS features interviews and artwork of the artists who grew Heresies into a feminist forum for revolution. Members of the Heresies included Lucy Lippard, Betsy Hess, Pat Steir, Joan Snyder, Miriam Schapiro, Ida Applebroog, Janet Froelich and Su Friedrich. Such luminaries as Alice Walker, Adrienne Rich, and Barbara Kruger were featured in the magazine that spawned ground-breaking photography, poetry, art and ideas.
The film uncovers for the first time the inner workings of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement. Following her dream of becoming a filmmaker, Braderman moved to New York City in 1971. By lucky chance, she joined Heresies, a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970s art world in lower Manhattan. Members of the Heresies Collective—now accomplished artists, writers, architects, filmmakers, curators, and teachers now scattered around the world—speak intimately about the extraordinary times they shared in 1970s Manhattan. The founding collective included Miriam Schapiro, Lucy Lippard, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, Ida Applebroog, Janet Froelich and Su Friedrich.
Ambitious in style, Braderman collages moving images from contemporary and historical film and video with cutting-edge digital motion graphics. She presents images of the women, then and now, in their studios creating artwork in a range of forms: from architecture to painting to design and environmental work. With her signature layering and pastiche style, Braderman evokes this tumultuous time, in which thousands of small groups of women on every continent met to consider their situation – as women in a man’s world -- and to devise strategies for unlocking their potential and making their work visible. By focusing on the Heresies Collective as a microcosm of the larger international Women’s Movement, Braderman demonstrates how the Movement challenged the terms of gender and power, re-writing the lives of generations to follow.
About Director Joan Braderman: Joan Braderman is a video artist, writer and filmmaker whose work is in such permanent collections as MoMA, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Her films and videos have been shown in film festivals around the world including: the Whitney Biennial, the Edinburgh Film Festival, VIDEO VISIONS in the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, and the British Film Theater in London. She has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York and Massachusetts Councils for the Arts, The American Film Institute, The Jerome Foundation and many others including prizes in major festivals world-wide. Best known for her "text and performance" art or "stand-up theory" pieces in which she inserts her own body (and sassy mouth) into the images of popular mass media, THE HERETICS takes her in a new direction. "Someone simply had to tell the upbeat side of the story of the Second Wave in this medium MINUS the ridiculous but now to-be-expected bagof tricks, attacks and distortions. It's past time and I knew the group of smart, sexy, brilliant, kick-ass women who could do it." Braderman took an extended leave from teaching at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Mass. as Professor of Film and Video to make this film.
About Producer Crescent Diamond: Crescent is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and television producer who has been working in the Bay Area for over ten years. Past projects include the documentary, Silence Ain’t Sexy and the monthly television series, Street Level TV. Crescent is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University, for which she received the prestigious Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Graduate Studies. Crescent serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at Berkeley Community Media. http://www.crescentdiamond.tv
About the SF Women's Film Festival: The 6th Annual San Francisco Women's Film Festival will take place April 7-11. Filmmaker and community educator, Scarlett Shepard, founded the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival in response to the lack of credit given to women filmmakers in the history of cinema. While a student at San Francisco State University’s cinema program, Shepard embarked on a journey to create a platform that would showcase local, student and international women filmmakers. She teamed up with SFSU professors, the SFSU Women’s Center of Associated Students, local award-winning filmmakers and a host of local sponsors, and San Francisco State University’s first Women’s Film Festival was born in April 2005.
For more information
The Heretics: www.heresiesfilmproject.org
San Francisco Women's Film Festival: www.sfwff.com
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