Revisiting Films by Women/Chicago '74 with Patricia Erens and B. Ruby Rich

Name: Revisiting Films by Women/Chicago '74 with Patricia Erens and B. Ruby Rich
Start: 2024-09-25T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL, United States, Illinois 60208

Schedule

Wed Sep 25 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL, United States, Illinois 60208 | Evanston, IL

Revisiting Films By Women/Chicago ‘74
with Patricia Erens and B. Ruby Rich
An evening of short films and discussion with 1974 festival organizers B. Ruby Rich and Patricia Erens.
(Multiple Artists, 1971-1974, multiple formats, approx. 60 min plus discussion)
At the center of the committee that organized the Films by Women/Chicago ‘74 festival were two of Chicago’s most formidable film scholars and programmers—Patricia Erens, then a doctoral candidate in film at Northwestern University, and B. Ruby Rich, assistant director of the Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The panel they convened—like the program they helped envision—was far-reaching, fractious, and deeply engaged with debates central to the feminist movement in the 1970s.
Revisiting the Films by Women festival after decades spent transforming film studies as educators, authors, and editors, Rich and Erens will appear in conversation alongside a selection of short films by women filmmakers of the 1970s. The six films they have chosen for this program, ranging from documentary to animation to personal and experimental cinema, collectively explore the questions of sexuality, intimacy, self-image, family, and creativity which animated Films by Women/Chicago ‘74 and remain pertinent today.