CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN: GENDER ADVENTURES

Saturday, March 18 / 7:00 pm / Mayfair Theatre

Program: The Red Girl and the Child, The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg, A Range Romance, The Night Rider, What’s the World Coming To?
Guest: Laura Horak, Curator

Special Presentation \

Presented in partnership with Carleton University’s School For Studies In Art and Culture: Film Studies, IFFO is proud to showcase selections from the recently released celebration of women performers and filmmakers in the silent era. The collection Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Gender Adventures, co-curated by Carleton University Film Studies Professor Laura Horak, features rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play. The films span a range of genres including slapstick comedy, genteel farce, the trick film, cowboy melodrama, and adventure thriller.

In collaboration with Professor Horak, IFFO will present a selection of daring, entertaining shorts from this amazing collection, with live piano accompaniment.

This program will feature live musical accompaniment by pianist James McGowan and percussionist Peter Valsamis.

Film program \

A Ho-Chunk actress performing spectacular stunts, a cross-dressing girl spy, and a Brokeback Mountain story made in 1911! Not to mention a gun-toting ranch owner in leopard-print chaps and a topsy-turvy wedding set “100 years from now–when men have become more like women and women more like men”! Check out this selection of films from Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Gender Adventures, a collection of 99 rarely seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction and suggestive gender play. The New York Times called it “a triumph”!

- Laura Horak

Une actrice Ho-Chunk qui réalise des acrobaties spectaculaires, une espionne travestie, et une histoire à la Brokeback Mountain créée en 1911! Sans mentionner le propriétaire d’un ranch armé en jambières à motifs de léopard et un mariage sens dessus dessous situé « dans 100 ans, lorsque les hommes seront devenus davantage comme des femmes, et les femmes, comme des hommes »! Jetez un coup d’œil à cette sélection de films de Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Gender Adventures, une collection de 99 films muets rarement vus sur la protestation féministe, la destruction burlesque anarchique et les jeux de genres osés. Le New York Times l’a qualifié de triomphe! 

- Laura Horak (traduit par Jacinthe Grenier-Albert)

This program is presented in partnership with Carleton University, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Cinema’s First Nasty Women.