Events
Lions Love (...and Lies)
Hair writers and composers James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Warhol “Superstar” Viva, and Shirley Clarke appear in this examination of West Coast counterculture made by the renowned New Wave director Agnès Varda during her sojourn in California.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
Marlene Creates, detail of Spring 2003 from Water Flowing to the Sea Captured at the Speed of Light, Blast Hole Pond River, Newfoundland 2002-2003. Image courtesy of the artist.
Exhibition tour with Marlene Creates and Susan Gibson Garvey
Dalhousie Art Gallery is pleased to present a walking tour with artist Marlene Creates and curator Susan Gibson-Garvey of the exhibition Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses.
Daisies
In this delightfully surreal and visually arresting film, director Chytilová portrays two young women challenging ideas of consumption and identity in pre-invasion Prague.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
Loving Couples
Three couples from differing social classes each reach critical points in this social costume drama set in Stockholm in 1915.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
Simon and Laura
In this witty and prescient look at early reality tv in Britain, a couple has their everyday lives recorded for mass audiences despite an already shaky relationship.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
Young Lovers (Never Fear)
A young dancer must struggle with the aftermath of a polio attack in this striking social-issue film from actress/director Lupino, the most important and influential female director of the late 1940s and early ’50s.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
Christopher Strong
The only female studio director of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Years’, Arzner specialized in examining female archetypes. In Christopher Strong, Katharine Hepburn plays an aviatrix caught between achievements in the air and love on the ground.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
The Woman Condemned
The B-Moviemaker, aka Mrs. Wallace Reid, delivers a low-budget mystery with plenty of plot twists and turns concerning the apparent murder of a female radio celebrity.
Part of the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
The Blue Light
Directing herself in a ‘mountain’ film co-written by the leftist actor and film theorist Béla Balázs, Riefenstahl plays a shunned woman whose discovery of a mystical light in a cave near the summit of a nearby peak leads to her ultimate betrayal.
First in the series:
Women Filmmakers 1931-1969
CURATED BY RON FOLEY MACDONALD
