¿ 12:00 pm Remembering We Yi-fang, Remembering Myself, Yvonne Welbon, director
An autobiography charts the influence of the filmmaker's six-year experience as an African American woman in Taiwan after college graduation. This highly original film recounts Welbon's discovery, through another language and culture, of being respected for who she is, without the constant of American racism, and how it helped her achieve self-knowledge.
¿ 12:30 p.m. 2 or 3 Things But Nothing For Sure, Tina DiFeliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner, directors
Acclaimed author Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina) is profiled in this moving, inspiring film. Combining poetic imagery with powerful readings, it evokes Allison's childhood in the poor white American South of the 1950's, her birth as a writer and feminist, and her coming to terms with a family legacy of incest and abuse.
¿ 1:00 p.m. Daughter Rite, Michelle Citron, director ¿ featured speaker at GVSU Women's Festival, March 20 and 21, Allendale campus
In this remarkable and groundbreaking film, Citron has produced a complex and unsettling work exploring the psychological dynamics of the nuclear family. As Citron describes it: I wanted to make a film about women in families, especially the mother/daughter and sibling/sister relationships. . .
¿ 2:00 p.m. In My Father's House, Fatima Jebli Ouazzani, director
In this beautiful, poetic and deeply personal film, Moroccan filmmaker Fatima Jebli Ouazzani investigates the status accorded to women in Islamic marriage customs and the continuing importance of virginity. Following three generations of women in their arranged marriages, Jebli Ouazzani offers us a rare glimpse of the shifts and changes in Moroccan and Islamic culture.
¿ 3:15 p.m. A Word in Edgewise, Heather MacLeod, director
A truly articulate, unaffected statement about a basic human activity, this excellent video explains the role of language in shaping behavior. It is a good synthesis of all that has been explored by linguists about sex bias in everyday speech and writing¿This video should be required viewing for all educators and can be used at all levels to improve awareness of our use and abuse of language in perpetuating sex bias in culture.¿Choice
¿ 4:00 p.m. Growing Up and Liking It, Susan Terrill, producer
The monthly menstruation cycle, that natural occurrence which from time immemorial has made women that object of taboo and superstition, is the subject of this fresh and often humorous video. We meet women of varying ages and cultural backgrounds who share with us the vivid and often disturbing memories of coming of age.¿Filmakers Library
¿ 4:30 p.m. Unbound, Claudia Morgado Escanilla, director
Unbound
is a docudrama in which sixteen women of differing nationalities, races and ideologies free themselves from societal definitions, stereotypes¿and the prison of the bra. In the act of unbinding, they speak directly to the camera with humor and insight about the significance of their breasts in their lives and diverse cultures.¿ 5:00 p.m. Regret to Inform, Barbara Sonneborn, director
Regret to Inform
offers a site of healing of the many wounds inflicted by Vietnam/American war through a cathartic exploration of the force of the war on women's lives. The film works as a travel piece as Barbara Sonneborn visits the area of Vietnam where her husband died during the war. Various women she meets along the way in America, North and South Vietnam describe their relationships with their husbands, and the impact of the war on their lives.¿ 6:15 p.m. Guerillas in our Midst, Amy Harrison, director
Guerrillas in our Midst
presents a savvy exploration of the machinations of the commerical art-world during its boom in the 1980s, and brings the Guerrilla Girls to the screen. This anonymous group of art terrorists has succeeded in putting racism and sexism on the agenda in the art-world since 1985, by highlighting how the myth of the heroic male painter is perpetuated. Their witty and creative tactics have changed the face of political and cultural activism.¿Sundance Film Festival¿ 7:00 p.m. I Shot Andy Warhol, Mary Harron, director
panel discussion to follow
One of the era's first hard-core, take-no-prisoners feminists, Valerie Solanas (played by Lili Taylor) arrived in mid-60's New York City with a single-minded mission: to spread the word of radical feminism. While feverishly putting her ideas down on paper, she becomes a fringe member of the psychedelic entourage swirling around art visionary Andy Warhol (played by Jared Harris). When the full force of her ideas comes to the fore, the results lead to a explosive consequences. ¿Samuel Goldwyn Entertainment
