!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION
DIRECTOR: LYNN HERSHMAN-LEESON
US, 2010
VISITING ARTISTS—In the 1960s, women artists formed Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), a coalition to cope with exclusion from museum exhibitions, art journals, educational literature, and historical documentation. The cost of this exclusion is still felt today. In 2006, even after the success of women artists such as Barbara Kreuger, Shirin Neshat, and Cindy Sherman, a poll of Whitney Museum patrons found that most of them could not name three women artists. Deftly combining reportage and personal memoir, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION excavates the evolution of the feminist art movement in America through intimate interviews with many celebrated painters, performance artists, curators, and academics, filtered through Hershman-Leeson’s own interpretation as a front row observer for more than 40 years. The film also features an original score by Portland’s Carrie Brownstein, formerly of the band Sleater-Kinney and co-creator of “Portlandia.” (83 mins.)
Director Lynn Hershman-Leeson and Carrie Brownstein invited to attend. Please call 503-221-1156 to confirm appearance times.
With community support from Women in Film Portland and QDoc: Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.