Hello, my name is Justin the Clu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today we're talking about Carolee Schneeman,

who passed away on March 6th at the age of 79. So what big Hollywood blockbuster did she direct, Will?

She directed Fuses, which I believe was the fourth highest grossing film of 1967.

Also, Meatjoy, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1964.

I think out of every filmmaker that we've ever done, this is the one artist that is the most tangentially related to cinema, because

she's mostly known as like a performance artist and as an experimental artist. Yeah, and a painter

as well. And, you know, that's one of the reasons that I was kind of interested in tackling

this subject, because she has one film that's one experimental film in particular that is kind of one of the canonical experimental films.

And a lot of her other films are sort of records of her performance pieces.

So I'm interested in that.

Like, this podcast tackles a lot of different kind of film-related things.

Poverty Roe, Kung Fu Fil films, more Poverty Row films.

And I want to push us to the extreme.

I want us to see the difference.

Buckle up!

An example of the sort of thing that film can tackle.

I don't think that there's any other artists that we are less qualified to talk about as men, because

she was considered a first wave feminist artist.

She was on the front lines.

Most of her art was about taking the power and gaze away from men and letting women have a form of expression.

And, you know, as much as oils and paints and canvases, her medium was her body.

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