SAAM’s Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival is Back!

Explore the connections between music, sound, and film during the Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival at SAAM. Featuring two evenings of live virtual conversations with artists Alison O’Daniel and Vivienne Dick. Wednesday, March 1, and Wednesday, March 8, 5:30 p.m. ET.

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Spotlight on Women Filmmakers

Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival at SAAM: Prelude to Musical Thinking
Wednesday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday, March 8, 5:30 p.m. ET

Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the fifth annual Women Filmmakers Festival featuring Vivienne Dick and Alison O'Daniel. In two evenings of virtual conversations, Saisha Grayson, time-based media curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, joins the internationally acclaimed artists to discuss their work and the role that music and sound play in our lives. At the end of each discussion, participants will have the opportunity to ask the artists questions in a live chat. Prior to the programs, registrants will receive special access to view a featured work from each artist.

The festival is presented exclusively online in March in honor of Women’s History Month and serves as prelude to Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies, an upcoming exhibition that highlights how film and video artists incorporate musical strategies, themes, and references into their work.

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Virtual Film Screening with Artist Alison O’Daniel
Wednesday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. ET

Join artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel for a virtual screening and conversation about her film practice that is also an experimental deep dive into sound, music, and communication systems from a Deaf/Hard of Hearing perspective. The live program discussion will be sparked by excerpts from O’Daniel’s feature, The Tuba Thieves (2023), which premiered in January at Sundance Film Festival.

Participants will receive a link with special viewing access to her feature film Night Sky (2011), from February 22 – March 14, 2023, via email.

Young woman on New York rooftop in 2020 from film "New York Our Time."

Virtual Film Screening with Artist Vivienne Dick
Wednesday, March 8, 5:30 p.m. ET

Join filmmaker Vivienne Dick for a virtual screening and conversation about her wide-ranging career, starting with her earliest films from the 1970s through 2020’s New York Our Time. Dick captured the birth of the No Wave scene of the 1970s and 80s by focusing on magnetic women rockers from New York’s gritty downtown scene.

Participants will receive a link with special viewing access to her feature film New York Our Time (2020), from March 1 – March 14, 2023, via email.

Photograph of Alison O'Daniel standing against a bright pink wall.

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Image Credits:
Alison O’Daniel, still from The Tuba Thieves, video, color, sound, 91 mins, 2023; Photo by Derek Howard

Alison O’Daniel, still from Night Sky, video, color, sound, 91 mins, 2011

Vivienne Dick, still from New York Our Time, 2020

Alison O'Daniel, photo courtesy of the artist

Vivienne Dick, Dublin 2023; Photo by Dragana Jurisic

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