Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Who Does She Think She Is? Photo: Mystic Artists Film Productions
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Monday Feb 2, 2009 (6pm)
Thursday Feb 5, 2009 (8:30pm)
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$9
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Note:
Boll will be present at each screening of the film, also scheduled for Friday Jan 30 (8pm).
Director Pamela Tanner Boll's nuanced documentary investigates the "burden and joy" experienced by women who balance their art-making practice with their lives as wives and mothers. Boll profiles five contemporary artists who struggle to create in the studio amidst the still-prevalent expectations that their chief responsibilities are, instead, in the home — with varying degrees of outward "success" and personal consequences. She juxtaposes her subjects with vignettes on feminist art history, and avoids a dusty Women's Studies lecture by exploring each artist's motivation, process, and the overwhelming evidence that their creative fulfillment makes them better mothers and role models for the next generation.
