Joan Sees Stars
60:00 | 1993
Conceived/Written/Performed by Joan Braderman
Co-Director: Dana Master
Director of Photography: Gene Gort
Part I – Starsick
Part II - MGM: Movie Goddess Machines
It's a smart, low-budget bridge between theory and pop culture, funny and devastating at the same time.
Philadelphia City Paper
Videomaker Braderman uses her own body as the site for exploring the ways our own culture of appearances meets the politics of identity. "She looks at life through rose colored glasses, then whips them off and dishes the dirt: movies meet life, life meets death and romance meets Perdue chicken in this meditation on our illicit VCR pleasures. Watch and eat your heart out.
B. Ruby Rich
Selected Shows & Awards
Premiere:
Video Visions, New York Film Festival
Lincoln Center, NYC , (10/1993)
European Premiere:
British Film Theater
London, UK (12/1993)
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
Bodies in Crisis
Chicago Filmmakers
(10/1993)
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival
Black Maria Film/Video Festival
• Juror's Citation Award •
Atlanta Film/Video Festival Award
• Best Dramatic Criticism •
Women in the Director's Chair Festival
Chicago, IL
Our Dinner with Joan
International House
Philadelphia, PA
Independent MassMedia Festival
Zone Art Center
Springfield, MA
Cicade de Vigo International Festival de Video
Vigo, Spain
Moscow Television
American Center, Paris
University of Glasgow
London Institute of the Arts
Royal Academy of the Arts
Universidade da Porto, Centro de Communicacion