<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Emily Rimmer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erimmer@hampshire.edu">erimmer@hampshire.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM<br>Subject: [CenterForFeminisms] Screening of THE HERETICS by Joan Braderman, Oct. 22, Academy of Music/Northampton<br>To: <a href="mailto:centerforfeminisms@lists.hampshire.edu">centerforfeminisms@lists.hampshire.edu</a><br>
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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>
<br>
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>
<br>
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 <a href="http://www.academyofmusictheater.com" target="_blank">www.academyofmusictheater.com</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.heresiesfilmproject.org" target="_blank">www.heresiesfilmproject.org</a>, where<br>
there are also many hi-res stills available for promotion. You can see<br>
a trailer at that site or at <a href="http://www.academyofmusictheater.com" target="_blank">www.academyofmusictheater.com</a>.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Emily Rimmer<br>
Director for Queer/Women Services<br>
Hampshire College<br>
413-559-5320</font><br>The Women's Center<br>
Enfield Building<br>
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