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Documentaries About Women in Art: Hopefully Incomplete…
By Le Femmes Folles
QuailBellMagazine.com *Editor's Note: This piece was first published on Les Femmes Folles August 6th, 2015
Gallery Tally project originator/organizer, and artist Micol Hebron is up to a lot. Along with her own artwork, residencies, educating and curating, she’s recently been a bit known for her being banned from Facebook a few times for superimposing male nipples onto images of female bodies (See her website for various news clips and interviews about that). Most prominently perhaps, to me, she is founder of the Gallery Tally project, of more than 600 (if not way more) volunteers from around the world, recording gender break-down of representing galleries worldwide, and making posters out of them, and presenting shows of the posters to boot. The project has garnered international attention and is ongoing (see gallerytally.tumblr.com and her website micolhebron.com for more). At any rate, very recently there was an article posted listing the “Top Ten Documentaries Every Art Lover Should Watch” where only two of the listed docs featured women (three if you count the husband/wife duo Charles and Ray Eames listed; and to note, #1 was Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, the only documentary about an artist of color listed along with Pablo Picasso, of Spanish decent) (Of course, if you’re in the arts, you know there is no shortage of articles/lists/collections/galleries that under and/or mis-represent artists who are women and/or minorities, see Maura Reilly’s article in ArtNews for one recent reference). Anyway, in a quick response to this latest slanted supposedly these are the best ten article, Micol pooled her resources—her hundreds of Gallery Tally volunteers—to query about documentaries about artists who are women, and posted this list in the group and on her Facebook page. With her permission, I’m posting this list (in no particular order), with a few sidenotes of my own… if you know of more, and/or if you’d like to write a note/review about one, send it to sallydeskins@yahoo.com .
Documentaries about women artists: The Saars: http://landsvideo.com/vf-saars.shtml
Sister Corita Kent:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1422727/ Louise Bourgoise: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386654/ Eva Hesse: http://www.evahessedoc.com/ Woman House: http://www.wmm.com/filmCatalog/pages/c324.shtml Joan Mitchell: https://itunes.apple.com/…/joan-mitchell…/id379326464 Women Art Revolution: http://womenartrevolution.com/ Sally’s note: This is a must-see for anyone in the arts. It gives a nice, brief background about the enormous struggle of the 1960s-70s feminist art revolution and how/why it came about. Maya Deren: https://www.fandor.com/films/in_the_mirror_of_maya_deren Artemisia Gentileschi: http://awomanlikethatfilm.com/
The Woodmans:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1610516/ Sally’s note: This is a heart-wrenching, important story about a young woman who captured her soul on film. A must-see for anyone who can’t live a day without art, or is close to someone who can’t. Marina Abramovic: http://marinafilm.com/ Cindy Sherman: http://www.guestofcindysherman.com/
Our City Dreams, by Chiara Clemente
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Our-City-Dreams/70114084?fcld=true Joan Jonas, Study of the Artist with Dog“ by Brigitte Cornand http://www.diabooks.org/item.m?itemID=23975 Joan Jonas, Reanimation http://13.performa-arts.org/event/joan-jonas-documentary Pippa Bianco’s "Picturing Barbara Kruger” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4209522/ Alice Neel: http://www.aliceneel.com/film/ Louise Nevelson: http://www.nytimes.com/…/Portrait-of-an-Artist…/overview Maya Lin: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110480/ Sally’s note: A great inside look at the amount of work it takes to be such a major artist as well as the strong-will to stick with your beliefs. The Heretics: http://heresiesfilmproject.org/ Who Does She Think She Is: http://www.whodoesshethinksheis.net/ Sally’s note: A must-see for any contemporary artist, especially relatable for mothers/parents in the arts. It’s frustrating and definitely sad at times, but primary issue for so many artists that needs to be more aired and thus cause change. Five African American Artists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYxwj7GYH_k World of Art: http://www.nhptv.org/kn/itv/episodes.asp? Invisible women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xql-OJlMBeY&feature=youtu.be Paris was a Woman: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114093/ Vivian Maier: http://www.findingvivianmaier.com/ Anything by Agnes Varda Mother Art: http://motherart.org/
Pina Bausch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CNuQVS7q7-A
The Story of Women in Art: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01y5r66 Learning to Swallow: http://petuniaproductions.net/films/learning-to-swallow/ The Female Closet: http://barbarahammer.com/films/the-female-closet/ Judith Scott: http://www.judithscottdocumentary.org/
Suzy Lake
https://www.ago.net/suzy-lake-playing-with-time A Portrait of the Artist as an Old(er) Woman: http://www.tbfstudio.com/a_portrait.html Deep Lab: http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/projects/deep-lab Documentary Series: Great Women Artists.“ Here’s one: Great Women Artists: Georgia O'Keeffe Shulie: http://www.vdb.org/titles/shulie Meinrad Project: http://www.meinradproject.org/preview.html Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party: http://www.phoenixlearninggroup.com/Products/VideoDetail.aspx?id=cf17f260-40d5-49b3-8ce8-628e5550d049&cat&sub Sally’s note: I just watched this!! It is really spectacular to see and witness their authentic conversations about the artwork, process, feminism and careers. As head needleworker Susan Hill noted: “We’re not just documenting female history but also building a feminist approach to the world…” (Of course the first portion of the sentence is simplified but you get the point)… It’s just awesome to see so many women—and men!—work together, reading about women lost in history, and making this profound statement. Judy Chicago and the California Girls: http://www.judychicagoandthecaliforniagirls.com/ Carolee Schneemann: Breaking the Frame http://breakingtheframe.com/ Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America (1996) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832442/ Bloodwork: The Ana Mendieta Story http://www.move-itproductions.com/_Bloodwork_Ana_Mendieta/Trailer.html Faith Ringgold: The Last Story Quilt http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Ringgold-Portrait-Artist-Series/dp/1882660005 Elizabeth Catlett: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1816514/ What Remains: Sally Mann https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/whatremains Playing a Part: Claude Cahun http://lizziethynne.co.uk/playing-a-part/ Niki De Sainte Phalle & Jean Tinguely: https://vimeo.com/groups/82465/videos/20199028 Documentary Sanctuary about Lisa Gerrard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYfcqe4KC-E Lost In Living directed by Mary Trunk www.maandpafilms.com/lostinliving, Lost In Living Life of a Female Artist, reality TV style documentary https://vimeo.com/131910413LifeOfAFemaleArtist.com Lives of Artists, Not Wives of Artists http://bufvc.ac.uk/dvdfind/index.php/title/12640 As if They Existed https://vimeo.com/132917656 Sally’s notes: Brilliant video portrait of artist Felicity Allen painting and having conversations with esteemed women in the artist such as Griselda Pollock and Anne Wagner, among others, about youth, art, feminism, painting and more. Shot with multi-angles and perspectives, and juxtaposed with art and ocean imagery, and conversations collaged at times, this is a true feminist project. The Dinner Party: a tour of the exhibit by Judy Chicago http://www.throughtheflower.org/shop/product/23 Darla Bjork by Candy Mar http://artfem.tv/id;10/action;showpage/page_type;video/page_id;Darla_Bjork_by_Candy_Mar_flv/ Unpacking Heidi Mullins by Sol Haring http://artfem.tv/id;10/action;showpage/page_type;video/page_id;Unpacking_Heidi_Mullins_flv/ Nina Sobell Pioneer in Interactivity by Emily Hartzell http://artfem.tv/id;10/action;showpage/page_type;video/page_id;nina_sobell_pioneer_in_interactivity_by_emily_hartzell_1993_flv/ Barbara Meter Appearances by Tina Bastajian http://artfem.tv/id;10/action;showpage/page_type;video/page_id;Barbara_Meter_Appearances_by_Tina_Bastajian_flv/ Mots et cadeaux d'Odette Blavier by Liana Zanfrisco http://artfem.tv/id;10/action;showpage/page_type;video/page_id;mots_et_cadeaux_d_odette_blavier_by_liana_zanfrisco_flv/
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