No Master Territories: Feminist Short Films with Curator Erika Balsom

BLOCK CINEMA

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Film scholar and curator Erika Balsom joins us for our ongoing series Films By Women/Chicago '74

The work of rediscovering, recirculating, and recontextualizing women’s cinema is never done. Perhaps no recent undertaking has proved this point so dramatically as No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, an expansive exhibition and screening series organized by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg and exhibited at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt in the summer of 2022. This program brings together three exemplary works that collectively attest to the diversity and depth of the exhibition as a whole.

Image: Han Ok-hee, Untitled 77-A, 1977. Presented as part of the Gene Siskel Film Center and Northwestern University’s Block Cinema's Films by Women/Chicago ’74 series. Screening series at both venues will revisit some of the 1974 festival’s most original and daring films and filmmakers while reflecting on the event’s enduring legacies.