NYC PREMIERE In 1970s Los Angeles, feminist artists excluded from galleries and museums created their own spaces, culminating in the groundbreaking Woman’s Building. With rare archival footage and the voices of Judy Chicago, Senga Nengudi, Suzanne Lacy, and Lily Tomlin, the film revisits a movement that transformed performance into a tool for consciousness-raising, catharsis, and political action. An exhilarating history of feminist artistic resistance, Acting Like Women celebrates the power of collective creation to challenge institutions and imagine new possibilities. - Ruth Somalo
Acting LIke Women is one of 10 nominated films in DOC NYC’s inaugural Archival Storytelling Competition, developed in collaboration with Archival Producers Alliance and co-presented by Footage.Net, Fox Archives, and Global ImageWorks. To see the list of other nominated films, click here.
The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer/director/producer Cheri Gaulke, writer/producer Anne Gauldin, and cinematographer Kristy Tully.
All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.