The Heretics (2009)

Directed by

Joan Braderman

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

3.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of a group of New York feminist artists who created a magazine about art and politics in the late 1970s. It shows how they worked together and shaped feminist art over many years.

intellectualreflectiveconversationalnostalgicearnestarchivalslow-pacedthoughtful

What happens

The Heretics is a 2009 American documentary film written and directed by Joan Braderman and distributed by Women Make Movies. It focuses on a group of New York-based feminist artists called the Heresies Collective, and their influential art journal, Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, which was published from 1977 to 1992. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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