Independent Heroines: Feminists From Years Gone By
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Tue 8 February 2005 // 20:00
INDEPENDENT HEROINES:
Tues 8th / 7.30pm / £4)
++++"You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but don't give a damn I'm listening anyway"++++
Heroines; our foremothers, sisters, feminists from years gone by. We present some unique documents of political ladies from previous eras of action and activity.
A WOMAN'S PLACE
(Sue Crockford / UK / 1971 / 25min)
A Woman's Place was the first film made about, by and for the UK Women's Movement. Footage includes the founding of the movement at Ruskin College and marchers in the snow. Sue Crockford will be here to talk about the film, the movement and the film co-op Liberation Films, a group which could well have been the UK's first activist distributor; making and exhibiting documentaries on the issues Thatcher didn't want you to see.
YEAR OF THE WOMAN
(Sandra Hochman / USA / 1973 / 87 mins / cert18)
Since its original five-day sell-out run in NYC in 1973, this radical flick has been screened a handful of times. Screening tonight on VHS, the one film print of this 'lost feminist classic' has been withdrawn from public view once again, so catch it while you can! Shot on hand-held 16mm the film takes place at the 1972 Democratic Convention, following director Sandra Hochman as she provokes male politicians, delegates, and celebrities into sharing their views on women and the feminist movement. Featuring an extraordinary cross-section of American cultural icons, among them Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and the electrifying black feminist activist Florynce Kennedy. www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,1192919,00.html
Tues 8th / 7.30pm / £4)
++++"You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but don't give a damn I'm listening anyway"++++
Heroines; our foremothers, sisters, feminists from years gone by. We present some unique documents of political ladies from previous eras of action and activity.
A WOMAN'S PLACE
(Sue Crockford / UK / 1971 / 25min)
A Woman's Place was the first film made about, by and for the UK Women's Movement. Footage includes the founding of the movement at Ruskin College and marchers in the snow. Sue Crockford will be here to talk about the film, the movement and the film co-op Liberation Films, a group which could well have been the UK's first activist distributor; making and exhibiting documentaries on the issues Thatcher didn't want you to see.
YEAR OF THE WOMAN
(Sandra Hochman / USA / 1973 / 87 mins / cert18)
Since its original five-day sell-out run in NYC in 1973, this radical flick has been screened a handful of times. Screening tonight on VHS, the one film print of this 'lost feminist classic' has been withdrawn from public view once again, so catch it while you can! Shot on hand-held 16mm the film takes place at the 1972 Democratic Convention, following director Sandra Hochman as she provokes male politicians, delegates, and celebrities into sharing their views on women and the feminist movement. Featuring an extraordinary cross-section of American cultural icons, among them Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and the electrifying black feminist activist Florynce Kennedy. www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,3604,1192919,00.html