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<TITLE>Screening of THE HERETICS by Joan Braderman, Oct. 22, Academy of Music/Northampton</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>THE HERETICS, a brilliant new documentary feature, by award winning<BR>
local filmmaker Joan Braderman, will be shown at the Academy of Music<BR>
in downtown Northampton at 7:30 PM on Thursday, Oct. 22.<BR>
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The film opened to packed houses at the Museum of Modern Art in New<BR>
York City last Friday evening. An extra show was added after the first<BR>
to accommodate the overflow crowd. Friday morning, the New York Times<BR>
had published a rave review, calling the THE HERETICS,<BR>
"exuberant...gives a joyful sense of what it was like to be a<BR>
feminist in the 1970's, a time when `everything seemed possible'. The<BR>
high profile women artists and writers today, she writes, are "just<BR>
as passionate and engaged. It's a pleasure to spend time in their<BR>
company."<BR>
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Three years in the making, THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of<BR>
the Second Wave of the Women's Movement for the first time in a feature<BR>
film. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of<BR>
becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971. By lucky chance, she<BR>
joins a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970's art<BR>
world in lower Manhattan. In this first person account, THE HERETICS<BR>
charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out.<BR>
<BR>
The Heresies Collective published "HERESIES: A Feminist Publication<BR>
on Art and Politics," from 1977-1992. THE HERETICS focuses on the<BR>
Heresies Collective as a microcosm of the larger international Women's<BR>
Movement in which thousands of small, intimate groups of women met<BR>
together to consider their situation -- as women in a man's world --<BR>
and to devise strategies for unlocking their potential.<BR>
<BR>
Director Joan Braderman is an award-winning video artist and filmmaker<BR>
whose work is in such permanent collections as MoMA, the Stedelijk<BR>
Museum in Amsterdam, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and<BR>
the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. Her films and videos have been<BR>
shown in film festivals around the world including: the 1987 Whitney<BR>
Biennial Exhibition, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the San Francisco Gay<BR>
and Lesbian Film Festival, VIDEO VISIONS at Lincoln Center in NYC, the<BR>
Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the British Film Theater, and<BR>
at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Braderman took a 3-year<BR>
leave from her job as Professor of Film and Video at Hampshire College,<BR>
in Amherst, MA to make this film.<BR>
<BR>
Tickets are $20 general admission and $10 for students with ID. There<BR>
will be a question and answer period with Joan Braderman after the<BR>
screening. Tickets can be purchased at the Academy of Music box office<BR>
or on line at www.academyofmusictheater.com. The box office is open<BR>
from 3 to 6 PM from Tuesday through Friday. Credit card users will be<BR>
charged an additional 5%.<BR>
<BR>
With its world premiere, a week long run, Oct. 9-15, at the Museum of<BR>
Modern Art, this will be the second showing THE HERETICS. You can get<BR>
more information on the project at www.heresiesfilmproject.org, where<BR>
there are also many hi-res stills available for promotion. You can see<BR>
a trailer at that site or at www.academyofmusictheater.com.<BR>
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