Programmed May 2020

Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories

Featuring a conversation between guest programmer Nellie Killian and actor Jenny Slate, plus a conversation about the filmmaking collective New Day Films In 1979, poet Adrienne Rich observed that “one of the most powerful social and political catalysts of the past decade has been the speaking of women with other women, the telling of our secrets, the comparing of wounds and sharing of words.” Curated by guest programmer Nellie Killian, Tell Me celebrates female filmmakers who took the simple, radical step of allowing women space and time to talk about their lives. Made in a range of idioms encompassing cinema verité, essay film, and agitprop, what the assembled films all share is a startling intimacy between camera and subject. Whether…