Ilse Aichinger
Jamika Ajalon
Hannah Arendt
Lilly Axster
Simone de Beauvoir
Monika Bernold
Dagmar Fink
Hannah Fröhlich
Tom Holert
Billie Holiday
Belinda Kazeem
Katherine Klinger
Anna Kowalska
Nicola Lauré al-Samarai
Adrian Piper
Yvonne Rainer
Rúbia Salgado
Shirley Tate
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 Yvonne Rainer (*1934)
Yvonne Rainer was born in San Francisco in 1934. She trained as a modern dancer in New York from 1957 and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, the beginning of a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. In 1968 she began to integrate short films into her live performances, and by 1975 she had made a complete transition to filmmaking.
From the beginning of her film career Rainer inspired audiences to think about what they saw, interweaving the real and fictional, the personal and political, the concrete and abstract in imaginative, unpredictable ways. Her queer feminist position and often controversial subject matter, leavened with a quirky humor has made her, as the Village Voice has put it in 1986, one of the most influential American avant-garde filmmakers, with an impact as evident in London or Berlin as in New York.
Yvonne Rainer’s films have been presented in cinemas and won trophies at festivals: Sundance Film Festival, Park City / Utah, or the International Documentary Film Festival in Munich. Her work has also been shown at major art venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, or the Documenta in Kassel. Recently, Rainer had a big retrospective at Kunsthaus Bregenz and Museum Ludwig in Cologne: “Space. Body. Language,” 2012. She lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles.
Selected films
1968, Hand Movie, 8 mm, black & white, silent, 5 min.
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1972, Lives of Performers, 16 mm, black & white, 90 min.
1974, Film About a Woman Who …, 16 mm, color / black & white, 105 min.
1976, Kristina Talking Pictures, 16 mm, color / black & white, 90 min.
1980, Journeys from Berlin / 1971, 16 mm, color, 125 min.
1985, The Man Who Envied Women, 16 mm, color, 125 min.
1990, Privilege, 16 mm, color, 103 min.
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1996, MURDER and murder, 16 mm, color, 113 min.
All feature films are distributed by Zeitgeist Films, New York: http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com
Selected publications
Theresa de Lauretis (ed.), The films of Yvonne Rainer. Theories of Representation and Difference. Indiana University Press: Bloomington 1989
Yvonne Rainer, A Woman Who... Essays, Interviews, Scripts. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore 1999
Yvonne Rainer, Feelings Are Facts: A Life. (Memoir) The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts & London 2006
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Sources: Zeitgeist Films; Wikipedia; Yvonne Rainer: A Woman Who … |
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