Gender and Film: April 11

The Feminist Future Series
Gender and Film: Resituating the Past in the Present
Friday, April 11, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
MoMA, Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2

Building upon the landmark two-day symposium The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts, which was held at The Museum of Modern Art in January 2007, The Feminist Future Series brings together international leaders in contemporary art, art history, and other disciplines who have shaped current thinking on art, gender, and related topics.

This program addresses gender and film, emphasizing the exploration of feminist issues through filmmaking from the 1970s to the present. Through presentations and discussion, Chantal Akerman, filmmaker, Trinh Minh-ha, filmmaker, writer, composer, and professor of rhetoric and of gender and women's studies, University of California, Berkeley, and Laura Mulvey, critic and professor, Department of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London discuss their own practices, the historicization of feminism and film, and the cultural and social contexts that inform the creative process of filmmaking. Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk and the film desk.

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