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    !Women Art Revolution: A Secret History

    Lynn Hershman LEESON 2010 USA Documentary color 90min English DigiBeta
    The Feminist Art Movement was an activist movement, providing a model of cultural and political change. Art protests were waged against discrimination and racial exclusion as well as violence against women. Over time, the tenacity and courage of these pioneering women artists resulted in what many historians now feel is the most significant art movement of the 20th century.
    The film explains the relationship between feminism art movements and the anti-war and human rights movement in the 60s. It also explains some historical events, such as the male connection in the opposition to the invasion to Cambodia, as well as the first wave of feminism movement fighting against cultural tyranny. The film also describes the female artworks after the 70s, also the early feminism art courses, political organizations, protest and publications. The director also interviewed artists, and historians, curators and commentators who have shaped the faiths and values of feminism movements. The film also discloses campaign strategies that are not revealed before, the approaches to politicize female artists and to engage women with the mainstream artistic world.

    Director

    Lynn Hershman LEESON

    Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute, Professor Emeritus at the University of California. Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker LEESON has been internationally acclaimed for her investigations of issues: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

    Lynn Hershman LEESON

    2010 ! Woman Art Revolution: A Secret History

    2009 Customize Marinetti

    2007 Strange Culture


    2002 Teknolust

    1997 Conceiving Ada


    1995 Double Cross Click Click1995 First Person Plural: The Electronic Diaries 1994 Seduction of a Cyborg

    1993 Virtual Love

    1992 Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story

    Production Company / Hotwire Productions

    Email: lynn.war.film@gmail.com


    Sales Company / Film Transit


    Email: john@filmtransit.com

     

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