Schmeerguntz

USA 1966. Directors Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley. 15min. Digital (restoration)

The Woman’s Film

USA 1970. Directors Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith, Ellen Sorren. 40min. Digital

Janie’s Janie

USA 1971. Directors Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford, Stephanie Palewski. 25min. Digital

Across non-fiction and avant-garde film, women on the cusp of the feminist movement’s second wave began to analyse the problems they faced in their daily lives. These three films embodied an emergent collective feminist voice using distinct strategies: collage, disruption and self-narration. These incendiary films diagnosed and illuminated women’s shared oppressions through agitational montage of glossy advertising images and housework’s unglamorous muck in Schmeerguntz, and and strategies of feminist consciousness-raising in The Woman’s Film and Janie’s Janie.

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