Museum Cinema / Radical Women, 2023 / Women's Month at the Museum
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.
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Radical Women, 2023| Dir. Isabel De Luca, Isabel Nascimento Silva | Brazil | English, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew subtitles | 71 minutes
Film introduction: Galit Landau Epstein, Curator for Special Projects
First came the exhibition, then the film: Radical Women was the name of an exhibition held in Los Angeles in 2018, showcasing the revolutionary works of 120 women artists from Latin America—artists long overlooked by mainstream art history. Their art was a bold protest against the oppression, discrimination, and marginalization they endured in their home countries between 1960 and 1985.
The filmmakers chose 11 of these artists to represent the spirit and goals of all the exhibition’s participants. Through their works, the film explores themes such as femininity, sexuality, and critical perspectives on the societies and regimes they lived under. Their art includes pioneering video pieces and performances that were ahead of their time—often using their own bodies as instruments of political resistance.
The archival footage features daring performances—especially bold for their time—and the interviews with the artists add depth to our understanding of their innovation, courage, and defiance in an era marked by social conservatism and authoritarian rule across Latin America.
Thanks to the film, these brave artists are finally given the recognition they deserve.