All who enjoyed Stephanie Rothman‘s films The Working Girls (1974) and The Student Nurses (1970) during the Working Girls special program at Women with Vision 05 will be thrilled to hear that the Vienna International Film Festival is honoring her with a retrospective these days. Rothman, who was a guest at the Walker in May 2005 and had long discussions with the audience about filmmaking in Exploitation Cinema as a woman and L.A. in the 1970s, will present five of her films in Vienna. It is the biggest retrospective of her work so far and namely not just in Europe. Even in the US such a film series of “one of the most headstrong and interesting women of American cinema of the 1960s and 70s” (Viennale catalogue) is still to be done.
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