November 2015
Ditch Plains
A screening and conversation with Imani Kai Johnson, taisha paggett and Jaye Austin Williams Facilitated by Erin Christovale Free and open to the public Shot in the East New York section of Brooklyn around the time of Hurricane Sandy, Ditch Plains (2013, HDV, 29 mins) is a dystopian sci-fi street dance film by Loretta Fahrenholz, featuring members of Ringmasters Crew. Like avatars running the levels of an apocalyptic video game, Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn and Marty McFly hallucinate the city and its networks…
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Gallery Tally Events: Teenage Feminist Boys
Teenage Feminist Boys Tuesday March 15, 7-8pm – Teenage Feminist Boys Students from Hollywood High discuss their experiences and ideas regarding feminism, what feminism is, and why it’s important for boys to be feminists too. An unprecedented conversation from the mouths and minds of the youth who hold the future of gender equity in their hands. Featuring a special live performance of an original feminist rock anthem, as well as short video documentaries about feminism and the ERA, created by…
Find out more »The All-Around Reduced Personality (Die Allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit – Redupers) Screening
Wednesday March 23, 6:30pm The All-Around Reduced Personality (Die Allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit – Redupers) – 35mm to Digital, 95 minutes, 4:3, Helke Sander, 1978 Edda Chiemnyjewski, a freelance press photographer and single mother living in 1970s West Berlin, is confronted with the fact that "a cook has no time for affairs of state". She also fails to find a market for the project she has been working on with her women?s photography group that seeks to document the city. While…
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Femmes’ Video Art Festival
FEMMES’ VIDEO ART FESTIVAL INDIVIDUAL THEMATIC PROGRAMS, APRIL 6TH – APRIL 17TH, LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS (see below for program dates) April 16th and April 17th – Entire program (all sections) at LACE April 23rd and April 30th: Femmes’ Festival screenings of primary video selections at The Situation Room The Femmes’ Video Art Festival was started by Micol Hebron for The Situation Room in 2015. The festival is curated from an open call for female-identified video artists to submit works made…
Find out more »The Nightcleaners Screening
Wednesday April 6, 6:30pm The Nightcleaners – 16mm to Digital, 90 minutes, 4:3, Berwick Street Film Collective, 1970-1972 Nightcleaners Part 1 was a documentary made by members of the Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan), about the campaign to unionize the women who cleaned office blocks at night and who were being victimized and underpaid. Intending at the outset to make a campaign film, the Collective was forced to turn to new forms in…
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