Extra credit film festival W.A.R.

After looking over the list of movies being presented at the film festival I decided to attend the movie, Women Art Revolution on April 28, 2011.  It was a film that featured women artist from around the world. It focused on current and past issues in the art world. The film interviewed over a dozen women artists who were involved in the art revolution. It was interesting to hear a lot of their facts. For example, they explained how at one point over one hundred percent of the art in an art museum was created by men artist. The only time a woman was featured in a museum was if she was posing naked. Another interesting fact was that at the time you could purchase 100 different women’s art work for the price of one male’s piece of art. Examples like   that helped create a group known as the Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla girls were a group of women feminist who originated in New York City. They were known as the Guerrilla girls because they would wear gorilla masks to hide their identity. “Reinventing the f word: Feminism” was very important to them and women all across the world. The Guerrilla Girls have produced posters, stickers, books, printed projects, and actions that expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and of course culture. Although this seems to be a very serious group of women they do use humor to convey information and show that feminist can indeed be funny.

After thinking about the movie after it ended, I realized there were a few things that caught my attention. For one the point of view in which the movie was created is very creative. They had many point of views throughout the movie about people’s opinions and thought on the Art Revolution. It helped viewers understand what was going on and the thought processes of individuals. One of the creative aspects of the movie was the use of setting. They filmed the movie in many libraries, museums, and art museums. It helped make the movie come to life. Seeing the type of environment these artists live in and work in helps the viewer really understand where and when the actions of the art revolution took place.