Film
The Electronic Diaries + Shorts
- 9:15PM
Dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson
1984—97, 76min
Decades before vlogging went mainstream, video visionary Lynn Hershman Leeson explored the relationship between our real and virtual selves in this sly, unsettlingly intimate taped confessional, which lays bare one woman’s innermost thoughts, anxieties, and obsessions.
Dir. Peter Rose
1981, 32min
An ecstatic experiment in perception in which the camera—surveying everything from a solar eclipse to the Golden Gate Bridge—becomes a tool of extra-sensory transcendence.
Dir. Jeanne C. Finley
1982, 4min
A wry recounting of the real-life story of “a tiny contemporary woman” and her unlikely encounter with Christ.
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