Combining personal travel movies shot by women in the 1920s–1940s, Courtney Stephens’s archival essay film complicates the early freedoms and power that leisured middle-class white American women experienced as they traveled through picturesque landscapes. The artist will attend both evenings. On Saturday, Stephens performs the poetic narration live on stage, reflecting on how the women’s spontaneous ethnographies shaped a feminized gaze and transformed objectification in film. 2017–2021, US, DCP, 62 min.
Friday, March 25: Introduction and postshow Q&A with Courtney Stephens
Saturday, March 26: Screening with live performance/accompaniment by Courtney Stephens
Students watch for free on Fridays!
About the Artist
Courtney Stephens is a filmmaker whose nonfiction and feminist experimental films explore the contours of language, historical geography, and women’s lives. Stephens’s work has exhibited internationally at venues including MoMA, National Gallery of Art, Barbican Centre, and BAMPFA, and at film festivals including the Berlinale, New York Film Festival, South by Southwest, IDFA, and the Hong Kong, Mumbai, Luxembourg, San Francisco, and Camden International Film Festivals. Stephens trained in narrative filmmaking at the American Film Institute.
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