THE HERETICS 95 min. NTSC, color/ Contact: Crescent Diamond, Producer B/W, 2009, (510) 604-1060, [email protected] uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of For more information, to see a trailer and to view the Women’s Movement for the first time in a the digital archive of all 27 issues of HERESIES, feature film. , director and visit THE HERETICS’ website: narrator, follows her dream of becoming a www.heresiesfilmproject.org filmmaker to in 1971. By lucky chance, she joins a collective at the Writer, Producer, Director: Joan Braderman epicenter of the 1970’s art world in lower Manhattan. In this first person account, THE Producer: Crescent Diamond HERETICS charts the history of a feminist THE HERETICS was shot in 24p mini-dv video. collective from the inside out. Principal Cinematography: Lily Henderson

The published HERESIES; Editors: Kathy Schermerhorn & Scott Hancock A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics from 1977-1992. The group included: writers such as Original Score: June Millington & Lee Madeloni Lucy Lippard and Elizabeth Hess; architect, Art Design & Direction: Joan Braderman & Molly Susana Torre; Creative Director of the New York McLeod Times and Real Simple Magazines, Janet Digital Graphics & 3-D Animation: Froelich; Curator of Film at the Museum of the Molly McLeod, Sarah Clark & Jeff Striker American Indian, Elizabeth Weatherford and filmmaker, Su Friedrich; as well as such prolific Principal B/W NTC & 70’s photography: and renowned artists: , Pat Steir, Ida Jerry Kearns and Applebroog, , Cecilia Vicuna, , , Emma Amos, LOCATIONS: Carboneras, Spain; Santa Fe, New Michelle Stuart, , Mary Miss, Amy Mexico; Northampton, Massachusetts; Portland, Sillman and Mary Beth Edelson. All the women Maine; Venice, Italy; San Francisco, CA; NYC (ages 54-84) are still doing the work they fought MASTERED at KTOP TV, Oakland, CA for the right to do when they founded HERESIES. Heather Weaver, Colorist, Preservationist SOUND MIX: Dan Olmsted, Berkeley Sound THE HERETICS focuses on the Heresies Artists. Collective as a microcosm of the larger Additional Cinematography: Liz Rubin, Scott international Women’s Movement in which Hancock, Gretchen Hildebran, Rhys Ernst thousands of small, intimate groups of women met together to consider their situation -- as Original Music/Performances by: women in a man’s world -- and to devise strategies for unlocking their potential and make June & Jean Millington & Lee Madeloni their work visible. Cris Williamson Holly Near Director Joan Braderman is an award-winning Rhiannon, video artist and filmmaker whose work is in such Dorothy Dittrich permanent collections as MoMA, the Stedelijk Naia Kete, Museum in Amsterdam, the Institute of Roma Baran Contemporary Art in London, and the Georges Bonnie Lockhart, Pompidou Center in Paris. Her films and videos Sonya Kitchell have been shown in film festivals around the Maria Zemantauski, world including: the Whitney Biennial, the Shira E Edinburgh Film Festival, VIDEO VISIONS in the Toshi Raegan New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, and the British Film Theater in London. Braderman took an extended leave from teaching at , in Amherst, MA. as Professor of Film and Video -- to make this film. (SEE FULLER ARTIST BIO LAST PAGE.)

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Emma Amos – Weaver, Visual Artist Sabra Moore – Visual Artist – Visual Artist Marty Pottenger – Performance & Dir., Maine Patsy Beckert – Editor, Educator Arts & Equity Initiative Joan Braderman – Video Artist, Filmmaker, Miriam Schapiro – Visual Artist Professor, Hampshire College – Visual Artist Mary Beth Edelson – Visual Artist Joan Snyder – Visual Artist Su Friedrich – Filmmaker, Professor, Princeton Univ. Pat Steir – Visual Artist Janet Froelich – Creative Director, Real Simple Magazine Elke Solomon – Visual Artist

Harmony Hammond – Visual Artist May Stevens – Visual Artist

Sue Heinemann – Editor, University of Michelle Stuart – Visual Artist California Press Susana Torre – Architect & Writer Elizabeth Hess – Author, Journalist and Art Critic Cecilia Vicuña – Visual Artist, Poet Joyce Kozloff – Visual Artist Elizabeth Weatherford – Director, Film, Arlene Ladden – Poet & Professor of Museum of American Indian Literature Sally Webster – Curator, Art Historian & Lucy Lippard – Writer and Art Critic Professor

Mary Miss – Sculpture and Environmental Nina Yankowitz – Visual Artist Design

© Joan Braderman - No More Nice Girls Productions 2009 2 "HERESIES; A Feminist Publication on Art and Additional Featured Art & Artists: Politics.” Caroleee Schneemann, Performance, Artist The following are a selection of the grants, fellowships and awards Joan has won for her Zeinabu Irene Davis, Filmmaker work: Rose English, Musician & Performance Artist The National Endowment for the Arts, Julie Dash, Filmmaker The New York State Councils for the Arts Valie Export, Artist and Filmmaker The Massachusetts State Council for the Arts The , Barbara Kruger, Artist The New York Foundation for the Arts, Carrie Mae Weems, Artist and Photographer The Jerome Foundation, The Mac Arthur Foundation, Guerilla Girls The Massachusetts Cultural Council, Yvonne Rainer, Dancer, Writer, Filmmaker The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Hewllett - Mellon Foundation LTTR members: Emily Roysdon, Ulrike Mueller, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, K8 Hardy The Lemelson Foundation The Berkeley Film Fund Grant Bay Are Video Coalition, Media Maker of 2009 Award

Works she has written, directed and produced: NATALIE DIDN’T DROWN, 1983 JOAN DOES DYNASTY, 1986 30 SECOND SPOT RECONSIDERED, 1989 NO MORE NICE GIRLS, 1990 JOAN SEES STARS, 1992 VIDEO BITES, 1998 THE HERETICS, 2009 ***See Filmmography

In 1996, "A Tribute to Joan Braderman" was featured in the Joan Braderman, Director, Northampton Film Festival. (Printed transcript available.) She received the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Video in Joan Braderman, award-winning video artist, 2002 for Portugal and was given a retrospective at the De writer and director, has been involved with film Cordova Museum in 1994. This exhibition inaugurated the and video as a screenwriter, artist, performer, director and producer for over 30 years. Born New Media Center in Washington, DC, she holds degrees from at the De Cordova and included a series of large format Harvard and . Her works cibachrome photographs, “MOVING STILLS”. In 1996 she are held in the permanent collections of received the Koopman Chair, in the Visual Arts at Hartford museums such as the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, Art School where she created the installation, THE PUBLIC the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum GOES PRIVATE, at the Joseloff Gallery. of Modern Art in NYC.

Joan studied 16mm filmmaking in school, “Braderman looks at life through rose-colored glasses, then always the only woman in the class, learning whips them off and dishes the dirt. JOAN SEES STARS is no to shoot and edit analog, black and white exception: movies meet life, life meets death and romance open-reel video in NYC in the early 70's at meets Purdue chicken in this meditation on our illicit VCR public Media Access Centers. In 1975, Joan joined the group that founded the ground pleasures. Watch, and eat your heart out." breaking journaL B. Ruby Rich, Cultural Critic

© Joan Braderman - No More Nice Girls Productions 2009 3 Writings by and about Braderman have “PILLOW TALK meets theory in JOAN SEES STARS when appeared in such journals and books as video diva Braderman wrestles Liz, Ava, and other screen The Village Voice, The Independent, Time divas into bed for some frankly star-struck girl-talk -- a Out, Afterimage, Film Comment, The chatty free-ranging commentary on idolatry, mortality and Guardian of London, Contemporanea, proto-feminist bad girls.” Camera Obscura, Illuminations; An Essential Guide to ; States of Bill Horrigan, Curator Media Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts

She has taught at The , The Boston Museum School, Hartfored University School of Art, Universidade Catolica portuguesa and The London Institute.

Here is a sample the many venues in which her work has been screened:

The National British Film Theater The Whitney Museum of Art, Biennial and six other shows The Museum The Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland Video Visions, NY Film Festival, Lincoln Center Majestic Theater, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston DeCordova Museum, Massachusetts The American Center, Paris Le Centre Pompidou, Paris Real Artways, Hartford and New Haven Median Operativ, Berlin, Germany Black Maria Film/Video Festival, Juror's Citation IAtlanta Film/Video Festival Award New England Film and Video Festival, Boston Critic’s Award "Joan Braderman's sassy intellect and irreverent, female Cinematrix, Festival of Films by Women mouth,throwing caution to the winds -- drive the images of Oviedo y Ayunta de Sevilla, Spain her videotapes toward paroxysms of resistance, barely The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam disguising, with scalpel-like irony and wit, the ways in The DECADE SHOW which we should all be fed up to here with the cultural and New American Makers, San Francisco political lies permeating daily life in these . The Walker Art Center You come away from her tapes invigovorated -- with a Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California sense of possibility: for , for women together, for Winner-Best Documentary, Global Village social change, even for men and women. Some may call Documentary Festival, 1984 them wishful or utopian. I call them profoundly historical, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London courageous as all get out, and great fun." The W. P. A. Gallery, Washington California Art Institute & The Chicago Art Institute; Channel 4, London Yvonne Rainer, Filmmaker

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