Still from The Man Who Envied Women

Yvonne Rainer - The Man Who Envied Women (1985)
(Jackie Raynal and Larry Loonin)


GUESTS

Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer, co-founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, made a transition to filmmaking following a fifteen-year career as a choreographer/dancer (1960-1975). After making seven experimental feature films - "Lives of Performers" (1972), "Privilege" (1990), "MURDER and murder" (1996), among others - she returned to dance in 2000 via a commission from the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation for the White Oak Dance Project. Her most recent dances are "AG Indexical, with a little help from H.M.", a re-vision of Balanchine's "Agon", "RoS Indexical", a re-vision of Nijinsky's "Rite of Spring" and a Performa07 commission, and "Spiraling Down", a meditation on soccer, aging, and war. Her dances and films have been shown worldwide. A memoir — Feelings Are Facts: a Life — was published by MIT Press in 2006. Rainer has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Guggenheims, two Rockefellers, a Wexner, and a MacArthur.

Yvonne Welbon
Yvonne Welbon is an award-winning independent filmmaker, educator and media consultant. She has produced and distributed over 20 films which have screened on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel, BET, HBO and in over one hundred film festivals around the world including Toronto, Berlin and Sundance. Welbon received a B.A in History from Vassar College, completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree in film and video at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. Yvonne Welbon is currently Chair of the Journalism and Media Studies Department and Assistant Professor of Africana Woman Studies at Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, NC.

Patricia White
Patricia White is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Indiana UP, 1999), and her articles in have appeared in Cinema Journal, GlQ, Screen and in the edited collections Inside/Out and A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema among others. She edited a collection of essay by Teresa de Lauretis, Figures of Resistance (Illinois UP, 2007). She is co-author with Timothy Corrigan of The Film Experience (Bedford St Martins, 2004, 2nd ed. 2009). A member of the editorial collective of the leading journal of feminism, media, and culture, Camera Obscura, she also currently chairs the board of the non-profit feminist media arts organization Women Make Movies. She is writing a book on global women’s filmmaking in the twenty-first century.

Leslie Thornton
Leslie Thornton is one of the most powerful and original voices working in film and media today. She is known in particular for her science fiction serial Peggy and Fred in Hell, described by critic Bill Horrigan as a “benchmark work of the decade.” The series was awarded “Best of” by both Cahiers du Cinema and the Village Voice. She has received two Rockefeller Fellowships in recognition of her work, as well as numerous other grants and awards, including, the Maya Deren Award for Lifetime Achievement, the first Alpert Award in the Arts for Media, a nomination for a Hugo Boss Award, and NEA and NYSCA grants. Her work is included in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Pompidou Center, and others, and is shown at festivals, museums and galleries world-wide. She currently teaches media at Brown University.

Paige Sarlin
Paige Sarlin is a filmmaker, activist, and writer. She has an M.F.A. in Film, Video and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was awarded a Joukowsky Presidential Fellowship by Brown University where she is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Modern Culture and Media. The working title for her dissertation is “Interview-Work: The Interview Form and Labor.” Her writings on art, film, and politics have been published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, AREA: Chicago, Framework: A Journal of Film and Culture, October, and Re-Thinking Marxism. Since 1999 she has been an active participant in 16 Beaver Group in New York City, a platform for the discussion of the intersection of art, politics, and thought. The Last Slide Projector is her first full-length documentary. The film premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2007 and screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York in 2008.