The Heretics

The Heretics (2009)

THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement for the first time in a feature film or video. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971. By chance, she joins a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970’s art world in lower Manhattan. In her first person account, THE HERETICS charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out.

Date of release
2009-10-09
TMDB
3.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Joan Braderman

Casting

Interesting facts

The Heretics is a 2009 American documentary film written and directed by Joan Braderman and distributed by Women Make Movies. It focuses on a group of New York-based feminist artists called the Heresies Collective, and their influential art journal, Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, which was published from 1977 to 1992.

Production

Braderman began work on the documentary in 2006, travelling across the U.S., as well as to Spain and Italy, to interview twenty-eight former members of the Heresies Collective.

The Heretics incorporates interview footage shot in 24p mini-dv video with still images, 3D animation, archival footage, and staged scenes where young actresses play the roles of collective members. The aesthetic of the film has been described as "radical collage," evoking both the original magazine as well as Braderman's early video art.

June Millington, a so-called “Godmother of Women's Music,” provided an original soundtrack, in collaboration with her nephew, Lee Madeloni. When Millington, who said the Heresies magazine "was in every hip loft and living space I stayed at," heard the film was in post-production, she tracked down Braderman in her studio, watched the rough-cut for 10 minutes, and said, "all of your music needs were just resolved."

The former collective members featured in the film include Emma Amos, Ida Applebroog, Mary Beth Edelson, Su Friedrich, Janet Froelich, Harmony Hammond, Joyce Kozloff, Lucy Lippard, Amy Sillman, Susana Torre, Cecelia Vecunia, and Nina Yankowitz.

The Heretics premiered in a solo screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2009, where it ran for a week.

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