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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

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