Screening two classic feminist documentaries produced at bookends of the 1970s

The Woman's Film: Dir. Jennifer Gauthier, 1971, 40 min.

Inside Women Inside: Dir. Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio, 1978, 21 min.

As a mode of action and as a way of thinking, feminism constantly interrogates truth. Whose actions, language, and experience constitute truth? How would/could a feminist truth be gathered, recorded, presented, and claimed? These questions erupt in two classic feminist documentaries produced at bookends of the 1970s: The Woman’s Film (1971) and Inside Women Inside (1978). Screened together, we hope these films will facilitate a conversation about the relationship between feminism, activism, documentary practice, and truth.

Followed by a conversation with Shilyh Warren, Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts & Film Studies, University of Texas, and Asher Guthertz, Ph.D Student, Cinema & Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania

A program of the Wolf Humanities Center's Forum on Truth, the Perspectives film series is presented in collaboration with Penn's Department of Cinema & Media Studies and Public Trust.

For more information visit https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/womans-film-inside-women-inside