Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library: Women in the Arts: Media

TED Talks

Marina Abramovic - An art made of trust, vulnerability & connection
Marina Abramovic is a Yugoslavia-born performance artist. In this TEDTalk she will address her methods of performance art, "My method is to do things I'm afraid of, the things I don't know, to go to territory that nobody's ever been."
Maya Sayeg - How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement
Magda Sayeg, textile artist. Considered the "mother" of yarn bombing. Her work has evolved to include large scale installations around the world.
Shirin Neshat - Art in exile
Shirin Neshat has lived much of her life outside her native Iran. Her photographs and films offer a glimpse of the cultural, religious and political realities that may shape the identities of Muslim women worldwide.

PBS

Craft in America (2007)
Peabody Award-winning series of fifteen shows. The series focuses on an artist, origins, and techniques of American craft each artist creates.
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Episodes are featuring women and men at their crafts.
Invisible Women-Forgotten Artists of Florence
This is an Emmy Award winning PBS TV special. "Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence" is based on the book by the same name, by Dr. Jane Fortune (The Florentine Press, 2009).
The program showcases the painters whose works populate Florentine museums: Artemisia Gentileschi, Suor Plautilla Nelli, Irene Parenti Duclos and Maria Hadfield Cosway.
PBS-Fierce Women of Art
Information featuring works from women artists: The Guerrilla Girls, Corita Kent, Lynda Benglis, Xiao Lu, and Kara Walker.

Film Documentaries-Women Artists

Kiss the Water (2013). 80 min.
Directed by Eric Steele.
This documentary is about Megan Boyd (Scottish, 1915-2001), self-taught craftswoman who made fishing fly-makers from used feathers, fur, silver tinsel, & embroidery floss to create what many consider to be "mythical" laced works of folk art. Her fishing flies are prized by Prince Charles & fishermen/women all over the world. Many of her creations have become collection pieces.
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Country of Production: Scotland
Production Companies: Creative Scotland, BBC, Slate
Check your library film streaming services & collections to view the documentary (Kanopy, Theatre in Video, Hoopla, etc.)
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View for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDPx8cC6JrM
Out City Dreams (2009) 1 hr. 25 min.
Directed by Director Chiara Clemente
Five women artists featuring, Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero, filmed from 9 different locations: Cairo, Egypt, Miami, Minneapolis, NY, Paris, Phuket, Thailand, Torino, Piemonte, Italy, Turin Piedmonte, Venice, Veneto, Italy, describe the trials & tribulations the women have experienced in their art fields.
Language: English | French | Arabic
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Directed by Director Chiara Clemente
Country of Production: USA
Production Company: Di San Luca Films
Check your library streaming video services & collections (Kanopy, Theatre in Video, Art Babble, etc.)

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Rent SD: $2.99 Buy SD: $7.99 Amazon prime video, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01008NZIK?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_piv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_piv-20
$7.99 iTunesapple.com https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/our-city-dreams/id375068747
The Story of Women in Art, Part 1 of 3 (2014). 1 hr.
Hosted by English historian, writer, radio & TV presenter who is a professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London.
Each segment represents different women artists from the Renaissance, along with current artists.
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Country of Production: UK
BBC Production
This is a free series on YouTube brought to viewing by DailyMotion Video.

Film Research Resources

American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog of Feature Films
"The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, the most authoritative filmographic database on the web, includes entries on nearly 60,000 American feature-length films and 17,000 short films produced from 1893-2011."
Critical Commons
"A public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative concepts ... goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based research , teaching, learning, and creativity."
EUscreen
"The EUscreen portal offers free online access to thousands of items of audiovisual heritage. It brings together clips that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the 20th and 21st centuries."
Library of Congress-Collections with Film & Media
Collections trace the beginnings of film and media.
Media Resources Center Movie Database, UC Berkeley
Browse Movies by: Genres, Themes, Language/Country, Awards, Major Studios, Literary Adaptations, Short Films
Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE)
Publicly available resource, beginning in 1993.
Titles Available: 120,616
Articles Available: 1,082,145
Moving Image Archive
This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
The Public Domain Project
Thousands of media files that may be downloaded free of charge. Includes film, audio, still images and 3D models
Women Film Pioneers Project at Columbia University
"Women Film Pioneers Project features silent-era producers, directors, co-directors, scenario writers, scenario editors, camera operators, title writers, editors, costume designers, exhibitors, and more to make the point that they were not just actresses."