1960s/70s FEMINIST SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Overview

Loden’s WANDA had a latent feminist sensibility, if not an overtly expressed feminist politics. While some feminist audiences of the film saw little of an affirmative model within it, WANDA also was exhibited in early women’s film festivals of the 1970-80s, where it was often programmed alongside the films here assembled. In a contemporaneous, parallel track of women’s filmmaking, women on the cusp of the feminist movement’s second wave began to analyze the problems they faced in their daily lives. Across non-fiction and avant-garde modes, these films embodied an emergent collective feminist voice using distinct strategies: collage, disruption, self-narration. Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley SCHMEERGUNTZ 1965, 25 min, 16mm Newsreel (Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith, and Ellen Sorren) THE WOMAN’S FILM 1970, 40 min, 16mm Newsreel (Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford, and Stephanie Palewski) JANIE’S JANIE 1971, 25 min, 16mm-to-DCP. With Janie Geise.