San Francisco Cinematheque (Venue Partner)
145 9th St, Suite 240
415.552.1990
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Privilege
- When
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Sunday Nov 22, 2009 (7:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: Screenings are held at venues across the Bay Area. Check event listings for venue information.
- Price
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$10
- Links
“Choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and memoirist Yvonne Rainer caps off a weekend-long, hometown residency by hosting a screening of her whipsmart and frequently-funny 1990 film Privilege at the SF Art Institute. Tackling a host of issues — race, menopause, class, aging — while employing a dizzying range of techniques and genre-citations, Privilege implicates the "woman of a certain age" as both the victim and benefactor of the social forces that make privilege itself possible.”
Matt Sussman, Flavorpill
Event taking place at the San Francisco Art Institute (map)
Yvonne Rainer in person
"Who else could spin hot flashes, Lenny Bruce, Carmen Miranda and [Eldridge Cleaver’s] Soul on Ice into such a pungent brew?" (The Village Voice)
In Privilege, Rainer takes on the rarely explored subject of menopause and constructs a fascinating, witty and complex social critique of empowerment and class while delving into issues of age, sexuality and race. Playing with narrative conventions while simultaneously disrupting notions of continuity and identity, Rainer weaves the emotional and fictive realms of melodrama, documentary, text and archival imagery into a richly textured and compelling work. (Vanessa O’Neill)
