[Frameworks] Preservation Screening: Two Films on Art and Survival

[Ann Deborah Levy]

To Frameworkers:

I’ve curated the program mentioned below that will screen Wednesday.  If you are in NYC, hope you can make it.

Ann

The Women’s Film Preservation Fund Presents Two Films on Art and Survival:

Ariel Dougherty and Carol Clement’s SURVIVA and  Lisa Crafts’ GLASS GARDENS



March 22, 2023, 7:00pm

Anthology Film Archives, New York City

Filmmakers will participate in a post-screening discussion and Q & A 

SURVIVA, a Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) preservation premiere, and GLASS GARDENS, an earlier WFPF preservation, view the theme of art making and survival from different perspectives: SURVIVA on a pragmatic level focusing on the day to day concerns of a group of women artists, and GLASS GARDENS, showing the power of a woman’s artistic drive, even in the worst of times.   

SURVIVA, 1980, 32 minutes, was the last film produced by Women Make Movies when it was a production company.  An outgrowth of an actual women artists’ support group, non-actors play themselves as they face the issues of making and defining their art and the challenges of getting their work shown in the male-dominated art world. A document of Second Wave Feminist activity and filmmaking in the late 1970s and early 1980s, SURVIVA utilizes live-action footage and animated sequences to portray the women’s hopes and visions. An original score with female vocals and acoustic guitar echoes the folk music of the protest movements of the era.

Preceded by:

GLASS GARDENS, 1982, 6 minutes, is an elegantly hand-drawn animated film, set in the dystopian ruins of consumer society in which the protagonist has an unquenchable urge to create art and beauty out of relics and waste.  Her art fuels her will to survive and forges a path to a more optimistic and hopeful future.

Ariel Dougherty, co-director of SURVIVA, has been a powerhouse of activism and support for women’s filmmaking since 1972 when she co-founded Women Make Movies. For the past 50 years she has promoted women’s filmmaking as an organizer, a teacher, a writer, and a lecturer. In addition to making ten films of her own, she has produced several others, including Sheila Paige’s WOMEN’S HAPPY TIME COMUNE (1972), Denise Bostrom & Jane Warrenbrand’s HEALTHCARING (1976), and Lynn Hershman Leeson’s WOMEN ART REVOLUTION (2010).  She is currently completing a book, Community Based Feminist Film Teaching in the Long 1970s, and has established SPLICE, a film residency in rural southern New Mexico, where she mentors young filmmakers. 

Carol Clement, co-director of SURVIVA, an early active member and Board member of Women Make Movies, began her animation career at the Hollywood cartoon company Hanna-Barbera, later creating her own sand animation film LUNA TUNE (1977). From the 1970s-80s she documented numerous feminist events through her drawings and designed the original poster for Atomic Café.

Lisa Crafts, director of GLASS GARDENS, is an award-winning animator and moving-image artist, and a Guggenheim fellowship recipient. Her interdisciplinary work addresses issues of environmental uncertainty, sexuality, creativity, and chaos.

 
Advance tickets are available on Anthology Film Archives’ website with discounts for students, seniors, and NYWIFT members and at the box office:  http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=03&year=2023#showing-55802 <http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=03&year=2023#showing-55802>

The Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) was founded in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art in 1995.  Since then, the WFPF has preserved nearly 150 American-made films by women, covering almost every genre from the early days of Silent Cinema to the present and representing women makers of diverse backgrounds, points of view, and all colors.  

For more on the Women’s Film Preservation Fund, please visit: www.womensfilmpreservationfund.org <http://www.womensfilmpreservationfund.org/>  or email:  wfpf at nywift.org <mailto:wfpf at nywift.org>
 
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