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Behind the Veil Screening

Join us for a special screening of two films that have been restored and preserved by The Women’s Film Preservation Fund. NYWIFT established the Fund in 1995 in association with the Museum of Modern Art to preserve films in which women have played a significant creative role. Since its founding, this important initiative—the only fund of it's kind in the world—has supported over 80 films made between 1919 and 1990. The evening will include a panel discussion, followed by a reception.

Susan Meiselas, Magnum photographer and documentarian, and Tracey Moffatt, visual artist, will discuss the films after the screening.

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and member of the cooperative Magnum Photos since 1976. She is the author of three books: Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua, and Pandora's Box and editor of five collections: Learn to See, El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers, Chile from Within., Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History and Encounters with the Dani. She has co-directed two films: "Living at Risk" and "Pictures from a Revolution" with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti. She is best known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Meiselas has had one-woman exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow.

About the Films:

Behind the Veil (1972)
director: Eve Arnold
50 min. / B+W/ color / 16mm
A rare glimpse into a Dubai harem and a document of the significant changes in the lives of Arab women during the early 1970s, this is the only film made by Eve Arnold, the world-renowned photojournalist and first woman to work for the elite Magnum Photos.

Reassemblage (1982)
director: Trin T. Minh-Ha
40 min./color/16mm
This innovative first film of Vietnamese émigré Trin T. Minh-Ha marked the entrance of a major presence into independent filmmaking and women's studies. It reflects on and critiques filming in rural Senegal and questions practices of the "anthropological I/eye.”