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Reema: We're in New York.
Hannah: Right now we are at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
Joanna: Robin curated an event at Anthology Film Archives which is
basically the cornerstone of the American avant-garde film movement.
Robin Blaetz: I am Robin Blaetz professor of Film Studies at Mount Holyoke College.
I was inspired to do this program through Sue Friedrich and Peggy Ahwesh came to me
saying they had a great idea that I should do.
Robin: The event that we put together at Anthology Film Archives
was a--kind of an origins event.
Joanna: It was these four female film makers who have kind of
revolutionized experimental film making.
Robin: I asked the film makers to choose films that had influenced them.
Reema: It was just visually very interesting and I won't pretend to understand
experimental cinema because I don't most of the time, but you know sometimes
something really grips your attention and it plays with your imagination.
Hannah: It's stuff that I feel not a lot of people get the opportunity to see.
Joanna: It was an eye-opening experience to see what the role of the female
experimental film maker has been in the American avant-garde.
Reema: The more you see and the different kinds of stuff you see--
it just gives you a lot of inspiration.
Hannah: Actually I was thinking in the last screening--the actual films by
Erica Beckman--that as I was watching them I was getting inspired for the
video production class I am taking now. Watching it a coming up with my own
ideas and how I can integrate some of the motifs and ideas she uses into
my own work. So--yeah, I was just sitting there brainstorming kind of making
mental notes of the stuff I want to do also.
Joanna: It was a great experience just to see so much different film.
Robin: I'm happy a lot of students went and now they realize how
close they are to the city.
Hannah: You just feel like more in the moment and everything feels
just a little more real here, I guess.
It feels more official and less removed the film world.