Director Joan Braderman screens and answers questions about her film, THE HERETICS, a feature film collage of interviews and archival documents that reconstruct the inside story of the feminist art collective HERESIES. Stéphanie Jeanjean, adjunct assistant professor of art history in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, moderates.

HERESIES formed at the height of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement in Lower Manhattan in the mid 1970s. Most representative of the collective’s activities was the magazine HERESIES: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, published from 1977 to 1993. Each issue of HERESIES proposed a thematic declension of societal crisis and women’s experiences: on violence, education, environment, racism, Third World feminist art, lesbian art, music, film & video, sex, and other important, critical concerns. The magazine plays a central role in the film, linking individuals, moments, and convictions which the film, THE HERETICS, reveals as the most tangible and comprehensible documents of HERESIES’ activities, ideas, and ideals. Members of the HERESIES collective include: Emma Amos, Ida Applebroog, Patsy Beckert, Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Su Friedrich, Harmony Hammond, Sue Heinemann, Elizabeth Hess, Joyce Kozloff, Arlene Ladden, Lucy R Lippard, Mary Miss, Marty Pottenger, Miriam Schapiro, Joan Snyder, May Stevens, Elke Solomon, Pat Steir, Michelle Stuart, Susanna Torre, Cecilia Vicuna, Nina Yankowitz, Elizabeth Weatherford, Sally Webster, among many others. And original soundtrack by early female rocker, June Millington.

All issues of HERESIES are downloadable here.

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This special film screening has been organized in the framework of the exhibition WE DISSENT… Design of the Women’s Movement in New York.