Sphinxes Without Secrets, Jul 18, 1992 | 8th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

8th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

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Director

Maria Beatty

Year

1991

Run Time

min

Country

USA

Language

English

PROGRAM Time

minutes

CONTENT WARNING:

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In “Sphinxes Without Secrets”, performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.

This film is presented in English with English subtitles.

No Mona Lisa smiles here: performance artists Diamanda Galas, Holly Hughes, Robbie McCauley, Rachel Rosenthal, Lenora Champagne, Ellie Covan, Laurie Anderson, Pat Oleszko, Jeannie Hutchins, Carolee Schneemann, Diane Torr, Martha Wilson, Annie Sprinkle and many, many more spill their guts about what outrages and delights them including sexuality, racism, censorship, homophobia, AIDS, power politics and the future of the planet.

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