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The Education Department of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University are pleased to invite you to

Woman with a Movie Camera: Alice Guy Blaché Symposium
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Film Center, New York University

36 East 8^th Street, New York

Trailblazer, inventor, and innovator, Alice Guy Blaché (1873-1968) was cinema’s first female director and first female film studio owner.  Her legacy extends to groundbreaking filmmaking techniques, novel approaches to narrative, and original directorial style.  This symposium explores her imaginative and pioneering approach to film alongside present-day innovations in the spirit of her work.

10 am: Alice Guy Blaché as Cinema Pioneer

Richard Koszarski (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

Alison McMahan (Homunculus Productions, LLC)

1 pm: Women in the Archives: On Film Preservation

Terry Lawler (New York Women in Film and Television)

Kim Tomadjoglou (Moving image preservationist, curator, historian)

2:30 pm: Emerging Media: Now and Then

Rick Altman (University of Iowa)

Virginia Heffernan (New York Times)

Admission

FREE for Whitney Museum members and NYU students, faculty, and staff

$6 for students of other institutions and senior citizens

$8 for general admission

For more information and to purchase a ticket, please visit whitney.org

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 6, 2009 – January 24, 2010.

The symposium is co-sponsored by the Education Department, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

This symposium is made possible by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Additional support provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer is sponsored, in part, by American Express.

Significant support is provided by Jessica E. Smith and Kevin R. Brine.

Additional support is provided by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Museum Educational Trust, the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Foundation, and an anonymous foundation donor.