RMIC documentary series
The information below was provided by James Parrish of the RMIC: Running Sept. 12 – Dec. 14, the Richmond Moving Image Co-op and Visual Arts Center present a four-month documentary film series, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Films about Women and War. The film series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat […]
The information below was provided by James Parrish of the RMIC:
Running Sept. 12 – Dec. 14, the Richmond Moving Image Co-op and Visual Arts Center present a four-month documentary film series, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Films about Women and War. The film series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans, a series of large-scale photographic portraits and accompanying oral histories of American women soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, on view at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond Sept. 12-Dec. 14, 2008.
Fri., Oct. 3, 9 p.m. – The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter. (1980) Director Connie Field mixes talking-head interviews with archival news and Hollywood footage in this engaging documentary of four women, African-American and white, who worked the U.S. shipyards and the air factories during World War II. Recounting their personal experiences with male co-workers and commenting on the social expectations of women at the time of and after the war, the subjects emerge as more than symbolic “Rosie the Riveters.”
Introduction: Michael Jones, Adjunct Professor, Film Studies, VCU and Randolph-Macon College. Co-director, Richmond Moving Image Co-op.
Admission: $5 (as part of VisArts:latenight; includes refreshments). Location: Visual Arts Center, 1812 W. Main Street.
For more information about the film series visit www.rmicweb.org.
-
Recommend this
on Facebook -
Report an error
-
Subscribe to our
Weekly Digest
This article has been closed to further comments.