[Geo_scholars] Fwd: [CenterForFeminisms] Screening of THE HERETICS by Joan Braderman, Oct. 22, Academy of Music/Northampton

[Xiaolei Gu]

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From: Emily Rimmer <erimmer at hampshire.edu>
Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Subject: [CenterForFeminisms] Screening of THE HERETICS by Joan Braderman,
Oct. 22, Academy of Music/Northampton
To: centerforfeminisms at lists.hampshire.edu




THE HERETICS, a brilliant new documentary feature, by award winning
local filmmaker Joan Braderman, will be shown at the Academy of Music
in downtown Northampton at 7:30 PM on Thursday, Oct. 22.

The film opened to packed houses at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York City last Friday evening. An extra show was added after the first
to accommodate the overflow crowd. Friday morning, the New York Times
had published a rave review, calling the THE HERETICS,
"exuberant...gives a joyful sense of what it was like to be a
feminist in the 1970's, a time when `everything seemed possible'. The
high profile women artists and writers today, she writes, are "just
as passionate and engaged. It's a pleasure to spend time in their
company."

Three years in the making, THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of
the Second Wave of the Women's Movement for the first time in a feature
film. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of
becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971. By lucky chance, she
joins a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970's art
world in lower Manhattan. In this first person account, THE HERETICS
charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out.

The Heresies Collective published "HERESIES: A Feminist Publication
on Art and Politics," from 1977-1992. THE HERETICS focuses on the
Heresies Collective as a microcosm of the larger international Women's
Movement in which thousands of small, intimate groups of women met
together to consider their situation -- as women in a man's world --
and to devise strategies for unlocking their potential.

Director Joan Braderman is an award-winning video artist and filmmaker
whose work is in such permanent collections as MoMA, the Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and
the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Her films and videos have been
shown in film festivals around the world including: the 1987 Whitney
Biennial Exhibition, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the San Francisco Gay
and Lesbian Film Festival, VIDEO VISIONS at Lincoln Center in NYC, the
Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the British Film Theater, and
at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Braderman took a 3-year
leave from her job as Professor of Film and Video at Hampshire College,
in Amherst, MA to make this film.

Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for students with ID. There
will be a question and answer period with Joan Braderman after the
screening. Tickets can be purchased at the Academy of Music box office
or on line at www.academyofmusictheater.com. The box office is open
from 3 to 6 PM from Tuesday through Friday. Credit card users will be
charged an additional 5%.

With its world premiere, a week long run, Oct. 9-15, at the Museum of
Modern Art, this will be the second showing THE HERETICS. You can get
more information on the project at www.heresiesfilmproject.org, where
there are also many hi-res stills available for promotion. You can see
a trailer at that site or at www.academyofmusictheater.com.


Emily Rimmer
Director for Queer/Women Services
Hampshire College
413-559-5320
The Women's Center
Enfield Building
www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=3204



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Xiaolei Gu
Hampshire College
xg07 at hampshire.edu
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