TERRA FEMME by Courtney Stephens screening at New York’s Anthology Film Archives
Excited to share that Courtney Stephens’ beautiful essay film TERRA FEMME is having its New York Theatrical Premiere starting Thursday, September 15 at the Anthology Film Archives!
Opened in 1970, Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema. In the decades since its founding, Anthology has grown far beyond its original concept to encompass film and video preservation; the formation of a reference library containing the world’s largest collection of books, periodicals, stills, and other paper materials related to avant-garde cinema; as well as a incredibly innovative and eclectic film exhibition program. Anthology screens more than 900 programs annually, preserves an average of 25 films per year (with 900 works preserved to date), publishes books and DVDs, and hosts numerous scholars and researchers.
“In showing the filmmakers’ wide-ranging cinematic practices and points of view, [Stephens] pursues the underlying question of whether there is such a thing as the ‘female gaze’; she develops far-reaching analyses of women’s filmmaking in an era when few women had professional directing careers – and ultimately connects their work to the sociology and the spirit of travel itself.”
–Richard Brody, NEW YORKER
By weaving together these archives, Stephens reveals the private yearnings of subjects seeking their place in the world, and the yearnings of a filmmaker seeking these subjectivities. TERRA FEMME captures a double process of self-learning, making it a perfect reflection of what museum curators like to call time-based media. Lyrical and searching, its layers of reality and thought accumulate, like sediment, into new formations of knowledge.”
–Mathilde Walker-Billaud, BOMB
Director Courtney Stephens will be there in person to present the live version of the film Thursday, September 15 and Sunday, September 18 at 7:30 each night; with the the pre-recorded version screening Sept. 16-21. See showtimes below!
- TERRA FEMME (live version)
September 15 at 7:30 PM
September 18 at 7:30 PM - TERRA FEMME
September 16 at 7:00 PM
September 16 at 9:00 PM
September 17 at 5:00 PM
September 17 at 7:00 PM
September 17 at 9:00 PM
September 18 at 5:30 PM
September 19 at 7:00 PM
September 19 at 9:00 PM
September 20 at 7:00 PM
September 20 at 9:00 PM
September 21 at 7:00 PM
September 21 at 9:00 PM