!Women Art Revolution

!Women Art Revolution
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson
Produced by Lynn Hershman Leeson
Sarah Peter
Kyle Stephan
Alexandra Chowaniec
Laura Blereau
Written by Lynn Hershman Leeson
Music by Carrie Brownstein
Edited by Lynn Hershman Leeson
Distributed by Zeitgeist Films
Release dates
  • September 12, 2010 (2010-09-12) (TIFF)
  • June 1, 2011 (2011-06-01) (United States)
Running time
 83 minutes
Country United States
Language English

!Women Art Revolution is a 2010 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It was released theatrically in the United States on June 1, 2011.

Synopsis

!Women Art Revolution explores the "secret history" of feminist art, through conversations, observations, archival footage, and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in feminist art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

For more than forty years, filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust, Strange Culture) has collected a plethora of interviews with her contemporaries—and shaped them into an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large. With a score by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, !W.A.R. features Miranda July, The Guerilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro and Marcia Tucker.

Awards

Release

!Women Art Revolution played at New York's IFC Center beginning June 1, 2011, before opening around the country.[1][2]

Digital Archive

A digital archive representing two decades of Hershmann Leeson's interviews with artists and critics is available through the Stanford University Libraries collection, !W.A.R. Voices of a Movement. According to the collection website, Hershmann Leeson desired this repository to "be shared with as wide an audience as possible."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Yerman, Marcia G. (March 14, 2011). "!Women Art Revolution at MoMA". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ Voynar, Kim (June 1, 2011). "Review: !Women Art Revolution". Movie City News. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
  3. ↑ Home | SUL

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