Arts

TIFF 2010: ! Women Art Revolution explores feminist art

Documentary follows four decades of women artists

By Xtra • September 15, 2010 8:00 pm EDT

Xtra chatted with Lynn Hershman Leeson, director of ! Women Art Revolution. The documentary follows four decades of the feminist art movement.

“What this film does is address, really, that vacuousness and the empty history and the silences of oppression that kept this story from being told,” explains Leeson.

Watch our interview below:

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