Screening and Closing Reception for “Now or Never”Saturday April 2, 2016, 6-9pmScreening
Screening and Closing Reception for “Now or Never”Saturday April 2, 2016, 6-9pmScreening begins at 7pmPress image credit: Stephanie Beroes. Recital, 1978 (film still); color, 16mm; 20mins.Please join us as we close CTRL+SHFT’s second exhibition with a screening of two women filmmakers: Stephanie Beroes’s “Recital” (1978) and Theresa Duncan’s “The History of Glamour” (1999), which address feminist issues from different standpoints and eras. A reception will be held from 6-9pm including a screening at 7pm, Saturday April 2, which is also the last day to see the current exhibition of women film, video and new media artists, “Now or Never. You Need Me. You Will Need me…”Stephanie Beroes’s rarely exhibited film Recital (1978) explores the dependent position of women within heterosexual intimate relationships. Recital will be screened in the original 16mm format. Filmed in front of iconic San Francisco backdrops, women read aloud love and break-up letters to and from men. They address the camera in deadpan (occasionally breaking up into giggles), which undermines the high seriousness of the former lovers’ words and conventional notions of romance. The film also includes a recital of a text by Carolee Schneemann, which states that “by the year 2000” women will achieve parity with men in the art world. While such references within Beroes’s work place it in a specific feminist and art historical context, the trope of “recital” reveals the value in gaining critical distance from past events through replaying.Stephanie Beroes (b. 1954) holds a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and is a founding member of Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Inc.Needless to say, parity had not been achieved by the year 2000. Theresa Duncan’s animated work from 1999, The History of Glamour, parodies the emphasis on women’s appearance in a new context of 90s girl power. This work also satirizes the New York art and music worlds: in one scene, the protagonist shows up to a “Googenheim” show with a baseball bat to sound out her “own feminist manifesto.” Written and directed by Duncan, the film is illustrated by Jeremy Blake, and Brendan Canty of Fugazi and Bikini Kill bassist Kathi Wilcox contributed to the soundtrack. The film aired at the New York Video Festival, the Women Make Waves International Women’s Film Festival, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Montreal Film Festival, the Channel Hopping Festival in Austria and was selected for inclusion in the Whitney Biennial 2000. As well as a filmmaker, Theresa Duncan (1966-2007) was a pioneering video game designer and critic. Her work is archived at the New Museum in New York and her early video games aimed at girls have recently been preserved online by Rhizome:http://archive.rhizome.org/theresa-duncan-cdroms/Gallery hours: Fridays and Saturdays, noon - 6 PM, or by appointmentThe screening and exhibition are free and open to the public.info@ctrlshftcollective.com -- source link
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