Female Problems: a visual history of auteur, amateur films at the New York Public Library made by and about women and girls

A lecture/demonstration by past instructors and filmmakers at Women Make Movies and youth film clubs, focusing on films made in the early 1970s by teen girls and women and using 16mm film prints acquired and preserved by the Reserve Film and Video Collection.  The discussion will be moderated by Lauren Tilton of Yale University who has made a study of the community film movement in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s, and Elena Rossi-Snook, film archivist for the Reserve Film and Video Collection.

Date: Saturday, January 10th 2:30pm

90 minutes with talk and screening

Moderators:

Lauren Tilton, Yale University

Elena Rossi-Snook, NYPL

Panelists:

Harriet Kreigel, Writer, Women Make Movies filmmaker

DeeDee Halleck, Pioneer media educator

Peri Muldofsky, Television producer, Film Club filmmaker

Films shown:

Restoration premiere of Peri Muldofsky’s Film Club film ASPIRATIONS (1971, 6 min., sound, color)

DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY (1973, 7 min., sound, B&W), one of the first films made for Women Make Movies

HEY THERE LONELY GIRL (circa 1973, 8 min., sound, color), made by members of DeeDee Halleck’s Middletown Girls Film Club 

This program takes place in the 3rd Floor Screening Room.