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Celebrating Julia Reichert: Her Life and Legacy

Steven Bognar in person

Columbus Premiere

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Julia Reichert in the mid 1970s, she has short hair, glasses and is in front of a microphone.

Oct 19, 2024 7:00 PM

Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students

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This tribute to the late Julia Reichert celebrates her legacy and spirit through never-seen-before footage of her life and work.

In 2019, the Wexner Center was honored to organize the retrospective Julia Reichert: 50 Years in Film, which toured around the US to venues including MoMA, the Walker Art Center, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the National Gallery of Art, and more. The following year, Reichert and her partner Steven Bognar won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for their film American Factory. Those who knew her and her work are still recovering from her December 2022 death in Yellow Springs, Ohio, at the age of 76.

This program will bring Reichert’s inspirational spirit to the Wexner Center yet again with three short films by Bognar that highlight the incredible woman behind the camera. Remembering Julia surveys her exceptional film output over the decades, Julia Home Movies is a poetically intimate look back on her life, and Julia’s Stepping Stones is a beautiful reflection on her journey narrated by Reichert herself. (90 mins., DCP)

See the complete Unorthodocs 2024 lineup.

IMAGE CAPTION
Julia Reichert, courtesy of Steven Bognar.

"[Julia Reichert was] the forefront of a new generation of social documentarians…with a belief in film as an organizing tool with a social mission."

J. Hoberman, New York Times

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Unorthodocs 2024 is part of the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial: backstories.

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council 
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle