ORIGINS, INFLUENCES, AND INTERESTS:
FOUR WOMEN FILMMAKERS
Nov 6 - 7
Screenings & discussions
Robin Blaetz author of WOMEN’S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: CRITICAL FRAMEWORKS asked four filmmakers – Peggy Ahwesh, Ericka Beckman, Abigail Child & Su Friedrich to curate and discuss films that influenced their work
Ahwesh, Beckman, and Friedrich in person!
In her recent anthology, WOMEN’S EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: CRITICAL FRAMEWORKS (Duke University Press, 2007), Robin Blaetz gathered together essays that contextualized the work of fifteen women filmmakers who worked from the 1950s to the present, in relation to the social, political, and artistic trends of their time. In this series of screenings, she has asked four filmmakers who came of age in the late 1970s and 80s to speak more personally about the films that influenced their work and that intrigue them, through a series of screenings and discussions. Peggy Ahwesh, Ericka Beckman, Abigail Child, and Su Friedrich have each curated a program for which (with the exception of Child) they will be present to discuss their selections. In addition, film scholars Melissa Ragona and Vera Dika will be present to discuss (respectively) Child’s and Beckman’s selections.
Very special thanks to Mount Holyoke College for sponsorship of this program.
Program:
ABIGAIL CHILD: BEYOND GENDERED SOUND: NOISE FILM, SCRATCH VIDEO, AND THE NEW PSYCHEDELIC ACID HOUSE VULNERABILITY
Presented by Melissa Ragona, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Critical Theory, Carnegie Mellon University; in collaboration with Abigail Child, in absentia.
George Barber TILT (1983, 5 minutes, video)
George Barber ARTS COUNCIL GB SCRATCH (1988, 1.5 minutes, video)
Dara Birnbaum POP POP VIDEO [includes GENERAL HOSPITAL, OLYMPIC WOMEN SPEED SKATING, and KOJAK/WANG] (1980, 9 minutes, video)
Elisa Ahtila ME/WE, OKAY, GRAY (1993, 3 minutes, video)
Abigail Child SURFACE NOISE (Part 1 of HOW THE WORLD WORKS) (2000, 18 minutes, 16mm)
Abigail Child IF I CAN SING A SONG OF LIGATURES (2009, 5 minutes, 16mm)
Charles Atlas SON OF SAM AND DELILAH (1991, 27 minutes, video)
Kalup Linzy LOLLIPOP (2006, 4 minutes, video)
Martha Colburn DON’T KILL THE WEATHER MAN (2007, 5 minutes, 16mm-to-video)
Jacob Ciocci THE PEACE TAPE (2007, 5 minutes, video)
Jacob & Jessica Ciocci THE TRANCE TAPES! (2007, 5-minute excerpt, video)
Takeshi Murata MONSTER MOVIE (2005, 4 minutes, video)
Music by Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins.
Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
-Friday, November 6 at 6:30.
SU FRIEDRICH: THEN AND NOW - Friedrich in person!
Marjorie Keller SHE/VA (1973, 3 minutes, 16mm)
Su Friedrich GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (1981, 15 minutes, 16mm)
Leslie Thornton JENNIFER, WHERE ARE YOU? (1981, 10 minutes, 16mm)
Anne Severson (Alice Anne Parker) NEAR THE BIG CHAKRA (1971, 17 minutes, 16mm)
Joyce Wieland SAILBOAT (1967, 3 minutes, 16mm)
Joyce Wieland & Hollis Frampton A & B IN ONTARIO (1984, 15 minutes, 16mm)
Su Friedrich SEEING RED (2005, 27 minutes, video)
Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
-Friday, November 6 at 8:45.
ERICKA BECKMAN: PERFORMING THE IMAGE - Beckman in person!
With Vera Dika, Associate Professor of Film Studies, New Jersey City University.
Jack Goldstein BONE CHINA (1974-78, 2-minute loop, video)
Pat O’Neill SAUGUS SERIES (1974, 18.5 minutes, 16mm)
Owen Land NEW IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF LIQUIDS AND NASALS A PARASITIC VOWEL SOMETIMES DEVELOPS (1976, 10 minutes, 16mm)
Vito Acconci THEME SONG (1973, 15-minute excerpt, video)
Julia Heyward MY BLUE PERIOD (1975, 15-minute excerpt, video)
Ericka Beckman YOU THE BETTER (1983, 20 minutes, 16mm)
Ericka Beckman SWITCH CENTER (2003, 12 minutes, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
-Saturday, November 7 at 6:00.
PEGGY AHWESH: ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME - Ahwesh in person!
Jaime Iglehart TRUE STORY (2008, 15 minutes, video)
Patricia Baga THERE IS NO “I” IN TRISHA, SEASON 2, EPISODE 7 (2005/07, 4 minutes, video)
Patricia Baga AB-ORIGINALS (MARY) (2007/08, 7.5 minutes, video)
Otis Turner THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (1910, 13 minutes, video)
Marie Losier PAPAL BROKEN-DANCE (2008, 6 minutes, video)
Dani Leventhal 54 DAYS THIS WINTER 36 DAYS THIS SPRING (2009, 18 minutes, video)
Peggy Ahwesh THE SCARY MOVIE (1993, 10 minutes, 16mm)
Katherine Bauer PSYCHO PUSSY SLAUGHTER (2008, 10 minutes, video)
Total running time: ca. 90 minutes.
-Saturday, November 7 at 8:30.
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