Gloria’s Call
2020 |
Synopsis
Scholar Gloria Orenstein's life is forever changed through her wild journey into friendships with the women artists of Surrealism. As she witnesses the visionary art and personal struggles of Leonora Carrington, Jane Graverol, Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenheim, she discovers her personal calling as a pioneer scholar of Surrealism and ecofeminism. Gloria's Call takes viewers from the cafes of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland through richly layered art, animation and personal storytelling. This film delightfully reveals an often unseen history of women in the arts.Credits
Cherie Gaulke (Director/Writer/Producer/Editor/Animator), Anne Gauldin (Producer/Writer/Animator), Cheryl Bookout (Producer/Animator/Website), Sue Maberry (Producer/Animator), and Christine Papalexis (Producer/Animator)
Awards & Festivals
Slamdance Film Festival, Big Muddy Film Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, 2019 SPE Media Festival, Tricky Women, Nevada Women’s Film Festival, Albany Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival (WON Best Documentary Film), Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, American Documentary Film Festival, Through Women’s Eyes International Film Festival, Annual Albany FilmFest, Newport Beach Film Festival, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, 26th Chicago Underground Film Festival, WOFFF Best of the Fest, 38th Annual Black Maria Festival Tour
Reviews
“Blending animation, interviews and a trippy soundscape, this is a fitting look at the life of radical academic and writer Gloria Feman Orenstein’s serendipitous life. She vividly conjures an alternative history of art, surrealism and eco-feminism in the 20th century, with lively anecdotes about Leonora Carrington, Méret Oppenheim and Jane Graverol, to name a few.” - Eileen Arandiga, Canadian International Documentary Festival
“…an inspirational gift to its viewers, reminding all of us that we must continue writing and re-writing history in order to give voice to those who, otherwise, would be silenced.” - Betty Ann Brown, ART AND CAKE
“Gorgeous graphics and a truly compelling and unique story told with imagination and wit. Valid, beautiful, spiritual, shocking.” - WOFF Judges: Felicity Beckett, Picturehouse Cinemas and Kavita Puri, BBC Our World, Editor
“A Stunningly animated piece that peers into the fabric of feminist surrealism and draws out its numinous thread.” Dario Guerrero, Director of ROCIO
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