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For this month’s collaboration with Ohio State’s Cinéseries group, filmmaker Courtney Stephens presents her documentary-performance Terra Femme, produced with support from our Film/Video Studio residency program.
We’re thrilled to welcome Los Angeles–based filmmaker and curator Courtney Stephens to the Wex for this hybrid event that combines archival women’s travel films and live performance. Stephens examines women’s history and gender roles within cinema from the 1920s to the 1950s and relates this investigation to her own life as a traveler and filmmaker through a live voiceover on stage. Her nonfiction and experimental films address the shape of language, historical geography, and women’s lives. (total program time: 120 mins., DCP)
Stick around after the screening for a conversation with the filmmaker! Stephens’s past presentations at the center include her Wex-supported documentary The American Sector, codirected with Pacho Velez, and her experimental Super 8 documentary Perfect Fifths, a portrait of performer and piano tuner JJJJJerome Ellis.
Artist’s website
“Interview: Courtney Stephens,” Mackenzie Lukenbill, Film Comment
In the words of Cinéseries’ members: Cinéseries is a student-led group that organizes monthly screenings in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts. We aim to offer a space for students and the community to engage with film and expanded cinema from makers from a variety of backgrounds. We aspire to create an environment conducive to critical engagement by inviting filmmakers to showcase work that takes risks, challenges norms, and opens a conversation by devoting to a wide range of artist-centered and independent media.
Terra Femme, image courtesy of Courtney Stephens.
Terra Femme was produced with support from the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio residency program.
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY Cardinal Health Kaufman Development
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Rohauer Collection Foundation FILM/VIDEO STUDIO SUPPORTED IN PART BY National Endowment for the Arts
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY The Wexner Family Greater Columbus Arts Council The Columbus Foundation Ohio Arts Council American Electric Power Foundation L Brands Foundation Adam Flatto Mary and C. Robert Kidder Bill and Sheila Lambert Institute of Museum and Library Services Nationwide Foundation Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Mike and Paige Crane Pete Scantland Axium Packaging CampusParc Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard Nancy Kramer Huntington Lisa Barton Johanna DeStefano Russell and Joyce Gertmenian Liza Kessler and Greg Henchel Ron and Ann Pizzuti Joyce and Chuck Shenk Bruce and Joy Soll Jones Day
Past Artist Talks
Terra Femme
