!Women Art Revolution
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Directed by | Lynn Hershman Leeson |
Produced by |
Lynn Hershman Leeson Sarah Peter Kyle Stephan Alexandra Chowaniec Laura Blereau |
Written by | Lynn Hershman Leeson |
Music by | Carrie Brownstein |
Edited by | Lynn Hershman Leeson |
Distributed by | Zeitgeist Films |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
!Women Art Revolution is a 2010 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It was released theatrically in the United States on June 1, 2011.
Synopsis
!Women Art Revolution explores the "secret history" of feminist art, 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 feminist 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 score by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, !W.A.R. features Miranda July, The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro and Marcia Tucker.
Awards
- 2010: Official Selection at Toronto International Film Festival
- 2011: Official Selection at Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier
- 2011: Official Selection at Berlin International Film Festival
Release
!Women Art Revolution played at New York's IFC Center beginning June 1, 2011, before opening around the country.[1][2]
Digital Archive
A digital archive representing two decades of Hershmann Leeson's interviews with artists and critics is available through the Stanford University Libraries collection, !W.A.R. Voices of a Movement. According to the collection website, Hershmann Leeson desired this repository to "be shared with as wide an audience as possible."[3]
References
- ↑ Yerman, Marcia G. (March 14, 2011). "!Women Art Revolution at MoMA". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ↑ Voynar, Kim (June 1, 2011). "Review: !Women Art Revolution". Movie City News. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ↑ Home | SUL
External links
- Official website
- !Women Art Revolution at the Internet Movie Database
- Zeitgeist Films Latches onto a "Revolution" on indieWire
- !W.A.R: Voices of a Movement, Stanford University Libraries