Dear Readers,
We are thrilled to bring you some important news! This July we are giving you a sneak peek at our forthcoming exhibition of films from the early 1960s to the late 1970s, titled Free to Love: The Cinema of the Sexual Revolution. This is the first time a film series, on this scale, has been organized around the concept of the sexual revolution, and it offers an opportunity for our audience to revisit the pioneering work that brought sex and sexuality to the foreground of public consciousness.
From depictions of group marriage, communal living, and other alternative relationships to challenging the notions of pornography and fighting censorship to giving rise to feminist and queer art, Free to Love examines the full spectrum of films from this era – and we are very excited to bring this major survey of both popular and underground cinema to Philadelphia! Our sneak peek event will be on July 31st, and then you’ ll have several months ahead until we begin the series on January 10th, 2014 – starting the New Year off right!
table of contents
3 IHP’ S BENEFIT ART AUCTION A AND SEASON Kick-off
5 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: J Jessica Demcsak – Suspension of Time
6 Welcome week
7 featured programs: T Totally Terrible 80s! / Family Matinees
9 programs 10 partner programs 11 july 17 august 25 September
By looking at works from around the world, we will learn how events and ideas from outside the US had a powerful influence on its film culture while at the very same time the American‘ free love’ movement was being exported to artists and audiences in a global arena. Free to Love includes more than 15 feature length films and 25 short films, many of which will be introduced by historians, scholars, as well as several of the filmmakers.
Don’ t miss your chance to get in on the action before it all kicks off in January – head over to page 16 for more info on our July screening of Fight the Repression of Erotic Expression, a collection of shorts.
Last but not least, this program has been made possible by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, and we are very grateful for their support.
Stay tuned!
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