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Film about a Woman Who...

Yvonne Rainer
Experimental : 105' / Avantgarde, Women, Dance, Feminism, Performance

A meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera, while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa

September 23 | 21h30 | Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro Buy Tickets

Sections: Retrospective
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/ Details

Year: 1974

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Dempster Leech, Shirley Soffer, John Erdman, Renfreu Neff, Yvonne Rainer

/ Direction

Yvonne Rainer

USA

Yvonne Rainer (San Francisco, 1934) is an American choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker. A pioneering figure of the American avant-garde movement with a career spanning over five decades across dance and film, Rainer’s artistic work has emphasized minimalism and experimentalism and has challenged conventional form to explore subversive political and social themes. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential performance artists of the twentieth century.

Filmography

Selection:

1996 - Murder and Murder (Feature Film)
1990 - Privilege (Experimental Feature)
1985 - The Man Who Envied Women (Feature Film)
1980 - Journeys from Berlin/1971 (Feature Film)
1976 - Kristina Talking Pictures (Feature Film)
1974 - Film about a Woman Who… (Experimental Feature)
1972 - Lives of Performers (Experimental Feature)
1966 - Trio Film (Experimental Short)
1967 - Volleyball (Foot Film) (Experimental Short)
1966 - Hand Film (Experimental Short)