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Susan Mogul's Woman's Building

Susan Mogul

2010 00:09:00 United StatesEnglishColorStereo4:3DV video
Tags:
Art History, Artist Spaces, Feminism

Description

“Nobody likes you if they think you’re rude- you better act the way you should.” But we didn’t.

Telling it the way it was lived, Susan Mogul’s short film captures the energy, passion and radical spirit of the Los Angeles Woman’s Building (1973-1991), a groundbreaking center for women’s culture.

“Susan Mogul’s Woman’s Building ” was commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design for the exhibition Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, October 1– December 3, 2011, in the Ben Maltz Gallery as part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 sponsored by the Getty Foundation. 

CAST

  • Jerri Allyn
  • Miriam Cutler
  • Cheri Gaulke
  • Susan King
  • Laurel Klick
  • Michele Kort
  • Lili Lakich
  • Susan Mogul
  • Phranc
  • Ilene Segalove

This title is also available on Susan Mogul Videoworks: The Woman's Building

About Susan Mogul

Since 1973 artist and filmmaker Susan Mogul has developed a body of work that is autobiographical, diaristic, and ethnographic. Her work addresses the human dilemma of self in relationship to family, community and the culture at large. Mogul’s videos of the early 1970s, as well as her recent documentaries, are often featured in exhibitions, publications, and college courses that examine the histories of video art, feminist art, and contemporary documentary.

“The conflict in forging one’s own identity in relation to a group — be it family or the culture at large — has been an underlying theme in my work. I was revealing attempts to define my self-image through humorous autobiographical anecdotes. In them I measured myself against influential role models.” 
— Susan Mogul