SHOW 5: ART! LITERATURE! FEMINISTS!
Unique and groundbreaking women artists, by women filmmakers
Thanks to Arkin-Tilt Architects for underwriting this screening.
6:00 PM • Sunday, March 24 | Albany Twin Theatre MAP
$12 (included with Festival Pass/Sunday Shorts Pass)
Q&A with filmmakers follows
Program
Gloria’s Call • Cheri Gaulke • Documentary, with animation (16:46)
In 1971, grad student Gloria Orenstein received a strange phone call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, sparking a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism, and shamanism. Gaulke’s delightful film uses art, animation, and storytelling to celebrate Gloria’s wild global adventure. READ MORE…
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin • Arwen Curry • Documentary, with animation (68:25)
An intimate and compelling portrait of pioneering and genre-stretching writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who died in 2018 at age 88. Curry brings us into the real life and creative worlds of this multifaceted woman — daughter, mother, feminist, author, anarchist, thinker — best known for her groundbreaking Earthsea fantasy series, and masterworks of science fiction like Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Featuring Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Michael Chabon. READ MORE…