Tell Me About Your Mother: Films by Susan Mogul
LACE Screening Room
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 7–9 PM
Philosophical Research Society
3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Limited free parking available on site
Free admission – RSVP to rsvp@welcometolace.org
Join LACE and legendary artist and filmmaker Susan Mogul for the world premiere of her latest film, Tell Me About Your Mother (2024), which investigates matrilineal lineage, domesticity and creativity.
The screening will also feature other films by Mogul, including The Pencil Test (2023), Moms’ Move (2018), and Sing O Barren Woman (2000). Following the screening, LACE’s Curator and Director of Programs, Selene Preciado, moderates a conversation with Susan Mogul and artists Nao Bustamante and Yuchi Ma to contextualize their video art practice.
About Tell Me About Your Mother (2024)
Intimate and conversational, seven female artist friends and colleagues of Susan Mogul recount their mother’s creative influence upon them. Additionally, each woman discusses the unique way(s) she distinguished herself from her mother. Many of these artist’s mothers, including Mogul’s, made sacrifices and compromises regarding their own individual talents and ambitions, because they did not have the choices that the feminist movement afforded women of their generation and beyond.
The featured artists in the film include: Wendy Clarke, Weba Garretson, Monica Majoli, Renée Petropoulos, Ilene Segalove, Susan Silton, and Jemima Wyman.
About Susan Mogul
Having been involved with video since the early 1970s, Susan Mogul is a pioneer of the medium. Initially producing an important series of humorous and staunchly feminist performance videos, her practice expanded to more complicated and experimental forms of narrative including feature length films. Mogul was also a key player at the Los Angeles Woman’s Building, an epicenter of the 1970s radical feminist art movement.
She has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship. A survey of Mogul’s video/films took place in Vienna at the Austrian Film Museum in 2024 and her first solo museum exhibition–a major survey of Mogul’s work-opened in August 2022 at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, a major museum in Warsaw, Poland. Mogul’s work has been featured in multiple historic exhibitions such as California Video at the Getty Museum (2008), Los Angeles 1955–1985: Birth of an Art Capital at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2006), and Where Art Might Happen: The early years of CalArts at the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria (2019).
About the panelists
Nao Bustamante is a legendary artist, originally from a small town in the Central Valley of California, who now resides in Los Angeles. Bustamante’s precarious work is cross-genre. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the NY MoMA, Sundance International Film Festival, Outfest International Film Festival, The Park Avenue Armory and El Museo del Barrio. She has received numerous awards including, the Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, a Lambent Fellow, and the Chase Legacy award in Film, co-sponsored with Kodak and HBO. She has been an Artist in Residence of the American Studies Association, Skowhegan and Artpace. Bustamante was awarded the CMAS-Benson Latin American Collection Research Fellowship, Artist in Residence at UC Riverside and a UC MEXUS Scholar. Bustamante’s 360º mini-series, “The Wooden People” received a producing grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation, and the National Performance Network. TWP was previewed at REDCAT in 2021. She was a fellow with the California Fund for Visual Artists and received the Philip Guston Rome Prize in 2024. She is an alum of the San Francisco Art Institute’s notorious New Genres program, and in 2020 was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from her alma mater. Currently she holds the position of Professor of Art at USC Roski School of Art and Design. Follow her @naobustamante and @gravegalleryLA for more of everything.
Yuchi Ma (马语迟) is an artist, filmmaker, and Parachute Kid from Beijing, China. Yuchi has screened and exhibited in various film and art spaces, including Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Hammer Museum, LA Artcore, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Most recently, Yuchi’s experimental film RED THREADS (2022) won the Grand Jury Prize for Experimental Shorts at the Slamdance Film Festival (2023), Best Web & New Media at the Independent Shorts Awards (2023), and Best Experimental Short at the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation, and Technology (2023). Yuchi earned her BFA in Film and TV Production from USC in 2019 and her MFA in Design Media Arts at UCLA in 2022. Yuchi has an upcoming solo show PANDAS ARE PANDAS at Paladar Space, where she will be debuting her new video work of the same title PANDAS ARE PANDAS (2025), as well as LOOP (2025).
Support
This program is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special thanks to Video Data Bank and our friends at PRS for their support while LACE’s Hollywood gallery is under renovation.
