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The Heretics. 2009. USA. Written and directed by Joan Braderman
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Friday Oct 9, 2009 (7pm)
Saturday Oct 10, 2009 (7:30pm)
Sunday Oct 11, 2009 (2pm)
Monday Oct 12, 2009 (4pm)
Wednesday Oct 14, 2009 (4pm)
Thursday Oct 15, 2009 (7pm)
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Free with museum admission. Film-only tickets: adults $10; seniors $8; members and children under 16 are free; member friends $5. Please visit website for more details.
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The Friday, October 9 screening includes a discussion with director Joan Braderman.
The Heretics reveals the inside story of Heresies, a feminist art collective that was at the epicenter of the 1970s art world in lower Manhattan. Director Joan Braderman, who joined the group in 1971 after moving to New York to become a filmmaker, charts the collective’s story for the first time in a feature-length film or video, revealing its pivotal role in the “second wave” of the Women’s Movement.
Unlike more traditional documentaries, the film is framed with striking digital motion graphics. Braderman combines intimate interviews with former collective members, archival footage from the 1970s, and documents of the collective—including the journal HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, published from 1977 to 1992—to put the Heresies in the context of the larger second-wave movement, which was made up of thousands who met in small, private group settings to discuss issues and launch programs and actions relevant to women. The hundreds of Heresies members, now scattered around the globe and working as artists, writers, architects, painters, filmmakers, designers, editors, curators, and teachers, speak intimately about the extraordinary times they shared as they challenged the terms of gender and power and reimagined the lives of generations to come.
The Heretics. 2009. USA. Written and directed by Joan Braderman. Produced by Crescent Diamond. Courtesy the artist. 91 min.
