Avant-barb(ie)

Name: Avant-barb(ie)
Start: 2024-05-16T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-05-16T23:30:00-07:00
Location: 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94103, United States

Schedule

Thu May 16 2024 at 07:30 pm to 11:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

2948 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94103, United States | San Francisco, CA

Cinematheque and The Lab are thrilled to welcome Microscope’s founders Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti to present Avant-barb(ie). Curated in response to and dialog with Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023), Avant-Barb(ie) features 14 film/video works—spanning nearly 60 years—which address the perpetually renewing cultural impact of the iconic doll, works which interrogate, subvert and/or dismantle associated cultural stereotypes while presenting discourse on sexuality, gender and American culture at large, even while considering the act of playing with dolls as an enjoyable, social or empathic tool. Avant-Barb(ie) also asks: “Will Gerwig’s movie spur further Barbie-related investigations, or will it be more of a deterrent, for film and video art of the future?”
Screening includes works by Pierre Bennu, Ava Bogle, Dagie Brundert & Gesine Jochems, Penumbra Carter, Joe Gibbons, Vincent Grenier, Faith Holland, Jessy Jiao, Lauren Kelley, Lucretia Knapp, Susan Kouguell, Narcissister and Addie Wagenknecht
Presented by SF Cinematheque with Microscope Gallery curators in-person.