Persists, Resists, Exists

This program celebrates a range of materialist approaches to feminist filmmaking in the United States, ranging from Nazli Dinçel’s utopian instructional film about 16mm filmmaking and Jodie Mack’s gorgeous stop-motion meditation on nature’s cycles, to Christina C. Nguyen’s and Peggy Ahwesh’s reimaginings of the representation of female protagonists in popular music and early video games. Jeanne C. Finley’s and Janis Crystal Lipzin’s films explore resistance and existence through personal histories, while Kelly Gallagher’s exuberant collage animation commemorates the life and achievements of the activist and organizer Lucy Parsons, who the Chicago police described as “more dangerous than a thousand rioters.”