“GENRE IS A WOMAN” festival
Through Thursday, June 16
Curated by Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan
Often typed as the purveyors of domestic melodramas and romantic comedies, women film directors have, from cinema’s very beginnings, embraced what’s thought to be an all-male preserve: the so-called “genre movie.” Defying attitudes, directors like Ida Lupino, Kathryn Bigelow, Stephanie Rothman, Katt Shea, Penelope Spheeris, Mary Harron, Doris Wishman, Kelly Reichardt, and many others have brought their own styles, sensibilities, and often subversive perspectives to genres as diverse as Film Noir, Horror, Science Fiction, Westerns, even Sexploitation.
This series is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.