SCHMEERGUNTZ by Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley is part of the programme “Wanda and Her World” at the BFI Southbank. The screening is taking place on Thursday, June 5th. Curated by Giulia Saccogna.
Programme:
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SCHMEERGUNTZ
Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley
1966, 00:15:00
Schmeerguntz
USA 1966. Directors Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley. 15min. Digital (restoration)
The Woman’s Film
USA 1970. Directors Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith, Ellen Sorren. 40min. Digital
Janie’s Janie
USA 1971. Directors Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford, Stephanie Palewski. 25min. Digital
Across non-fiction and avant-garde film, women on the cusp of the feminist movement’s second wave began to analyse the problems they faced in their daily lives. These three films embodied an emergent collective feminist voice using distinct strategies: collage, disruption and self-narration. These incendiary films diagnosed and illuminated women’s shared oppressions through agitational montage of glossy advertising images and housework’s unglamorous muck in Schmeerguntz, and and strategies of feminist consciousness-raising in The Woman’s Film and Janie’s Janie.