Press Releases

This page includes press releases from the first and second editions of the Women's Video Festival, held in 1972 at The Kitchen and in 1973 at LoGiuduce Gallery in New York. The documents may be viewed by clicking on the appropriate links.
     
  Women's Video Festival: Press Release
(September 14-30, 1972)

In this press release for the first Women's Video Festival at The Kitchen in 1972, Susan Milano announces that the Festival will present video works "created, produced or directed by women" that "cover the full spectrum of half-inch video applications, from video-verite to electronic abstraction." The release notes that the program will include a documentary on lesbian mothers, a tape about tattooing, a live video/dance event, and tapes on rape and abortion.

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  Women's Video Festival: Press Release
(September 14-30, 1972)

This press release for the 1972 Women's Video Festival, which is a slightly different version of the document above, presents a list of the participating artists, including Ann Arlen, Joie Davidow, Shigeko Kubota, Susan Milano, Queer Blue Light Video, Elsa Tambellini, Steina Vasulka and Women's Video News.

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  Second Annual Women's Video Festival: Press Release
(September 28-October 14, 1973)

This is the press release for the second Women's Video Festival, held at LoGiuduce Gallery over two weeks in September and October 1973. The Festival was co-sponsored by The Kitchen and the Women's Interart Center, and included works by women video artists from across North America. Among the participants were Charlotte Moorman, Optic Nerve, Olivia Tappan, Wendy Appel, Lynda Rodolitz, Shigeko Kubota, Ann Arbor Women's Video Workshop, Steina Vasulka and the LOVE Group.

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