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Bay Area Women in Film and Television presents...

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REEL SUCCESS STORIES:
The Films & Art of Lynn Hershman Leeson

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008
7 pm - 9:30 pm
at The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking

Bay Area Women in Film & Television is proud to present this rare and very special opportunity to engage with one of the most innovative and talented women filmmakers working today!

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Lynn Hershman Leeson has always been at the cutting edge.
She is an amazing artist who works in many media, including films, photography and installations. She has produced over fifty major video works and has been a pioneer in combining traditional film, new special effects and digital technologies. Some of her feature films are: CONCEIVING ADA , TEKNOLUST , and STRANGE CULTURE , starring Academy Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.

Lynn's films have won dozens of awards at major festivals in the USA and Europe. She has also had over 200 art exhibitions in major museums and galleries throughout the world, and her artwork is included in such collections as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Seattle Art Museum, The D.G. Bank, Frankfurt, The Hess Collection, and the Walker Art Center.

Her current project is a major work about the history of feminist art and the long struggle that women have had to endure to show their art and be recognized in the art world. We will be treated to sequences from this new film, and clips from some of Lynn's other films, and hear about her creative process and the driving forces that propel her work.

In addition to her films, Lynn has always simultaneously put a big part of her creative energy into the art world. In Nov. she is having three shows in the Bay Area: " T he Art of Participation ," which opens at SF MOMA on Nov. 6, a show at the Paule Anglim Gallery in SF, which also opens Nov. 6, and a show at the Hess Collection, in Napa, which goes through November.

Her breakthrough work often uses overlapping genres that explore questions of identity, presence, and the human body in relation to technology. Four interviews Lynn created, were partially shot in the virtual world of Second Life, intentionally subverting the distinction between real and simulated life, and explore interwoven themes of revolution, empowerment, technology and the remix. They examine how new and mass media mechanisms have generated change and how cultural and technological infrastructures have shaped the ability of individuals to have social and political impact.
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EVENT DATE : Wednesday, November 12, 2008

TIME:
7:00 p.m. Networking and light refreshments
7:20 - 9:00 p.m. Panel
9:00 - 9:30 Networking

LOCATION:
The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking 2565 Third St., Suite #337, between 22nd & 23rd Streets, San Francisco. Street parking is usually available.

ADMISSION :
FREE for current BAWIFT Members, $5 general admission, or
$3 non-member students with ID

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REMINDER: Unlike our special events, this month's meeting is for women only.

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Bay Area Women in Film & Television (BAWIFT)
3288 - 21st Street
San Francisco, California 94110
415-364-1860

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