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    Daughter Rite

    Michelle CITRON 1979 USA Documentary color 53min English DigiBeta
    Daughter Rite is a classic, the missing link between the "Direct Cinema" documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth couldn't always be found in front of camera lens. Scandalous in its day for bending the rules of representation to enlighten its audience about filmmaking, Daughter Rite has a lot to teach folks hooked on reality TV, too. Citron's documentary inquiries into feminism, women in the trades, and feminist approaches to media representation are time capsules that merit re-opening.

    Director

    Michelle CITRON

    Born in Boston, she has a B.A. in Psychology and earned her Ph.D. in cognitive studies and aesthetics from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She taught in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University from 1978 to 2006. Her films explore the lives of women, such as mothers and daughters, women and work, lesbian cultures...etc. These works are influenced by avant-garde film and feminism, blended with experimental styles and melodrama.

    Michelle CITRON

    1973 Self Defense
    1974 Integration
    1975 Parthenogenesis
    1976 Secretary Tapes
    1977 Birth Tapes
    1978《女兒的儀式》Daughter Rite
    1983 What You Take For Granted
    Mother Right
    1988 Great Expectations

    Women Make Movies
    www.wmm.com
    kfitzpatrick@wmm.com

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