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Museum-Cinema: Cinematic Fridays at the Museum / !W.A.R: Women Art Revolution, 2010

The Museum is pleased to offer its visitors extra-cultural Fridays!

Every Friday, the finest films on art and culture will be screened, after a short lecture by the Museum’s curators.

Admission to the Museum’s exhibitions is included in the film ticket, during the Museum’s opening hours.

!W.A.R.: Women Art Revolution, 2010 | Dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson, USA, 2010, English with Hebrew subtitles, 83 minutes
Introduction: Shahar Molcho, Curator of Contemporary Art

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For over forty years, artist and director Lynn Hershman Leeson collected a wealth of interviews with women creators of her generation—crafting an intimate portrait of women’s struggle to break through the barriers they faced both in the art world and in society at large. The film traces the feminist art movement from its roots in the anti-Vietnam War protests and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through its evolution in the 1970s, and explores how the determination and courage of trailblazing women artists created what is now considered one of the most significant art movements of the 20th century.

With boldness and insight, the film sheds light on feminist art through personal interviews, documentation of artworks, rare archival footage, and previously unseen video clips. Interwoven with conversations with historians, curators, and art critics, the film reveals how feminist art merged freedom of expression with politics to create a new artistic language—one that fundamentally transformed the culture and art of its time.

Featuring a meticulously crafted soundtrack by Carrie Brownstein, the film includes interviews with Judy Chicago, Miranda July, Martha Rosler, Guerrilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer, Marina Abramović, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, B. Ruby Rich, Ingrid Sischy, Carolee Schneemann, Miriam Schapiro, New Museum founder Marcia Tucker, and many more revolutionary women.

The film was selected by MoMA in New York as one of the top three films of 2011.