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Article: Femme films // Directing from the distaff side
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 15, 1998
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Re-Imagining
Four Perspectives on
Women Filmmakers
6-8 p.m. Wednesdays through March 11
Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago
Cost, $120; museum members, $100
(312) 397-4010
`I was searching for a mirror," reveals filmmaker Etang Inyang in
her cinematic diary "Badass Supermama." Tenderly confessing a
teenage crush on blaxploitation icon Pam Grier, Inyang edits clips
from Grier hits such as "Foxy Brown" (1974) together with personal
secrets. In her poignant critique, Inyang raises issues of
sisterhood and self-image.
Inyang's feminist poem is among the women-made films and videos
that will be screened and scrutinized in "Re-Imagining: Four
Perspectives on Women Filmmakers."
This ...