Tell Me About Your Mother: Films by Susan Mogul
LACE Screening Room
Thursday, March 6, 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 Los Angeles 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.
Light refreshments are provided.
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).
