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Film, Fabric, and the Feminist Imagination

Film, Fabric, and the Feminist Imagination

A Lecture by Artist Sabrina Gschwandtner
photo of an artist looking into the lens while holding up a colorful artwork against a lightbox

Artist Sabrina Gschwandtner

photo of framed square shaped work featuring black and white film laid out in a diamond pattern

Sabrina Gschwandtner, Cinderella by Lotte Reiniger Square, 2022. 35 mm b/w polyester film, polyester thread, LEDs. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber.

Mary Craig Auditorium

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In her lecture Film, Fabric, and the Feminist Imagination, artist Sabrina Gschwandtner examines the intersections of film, textiles, and feminist histories in her moving-image practice. Drawing on early cinema and overlooked films by women, she recovers marginalized histories—from pioneering directors to de-accessioned textile documentaries—and reanimates them through sewing, hand-painting, and quilting film. By treating film as a tactile medium and a site of historical repair, Gschwandtner reconfigures the relationship between craft and cinema and recirculates the often-erased narratives of women’s labor, creativity, and reproductive life on screen.