Joan Braderman

Joan Braderman, award-winning video artist and writer, has been involved with film and video as a theorist, screenwriter, artist and producer, for over twenty years. Born in Washington, DC, she holds degrees from Harvard and New York University and has had a distinguished career as a teacher of film and video at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. She began making 16mm films in college but got distracted by the Civil Rights, Anti-War and Womens' Movements. Through the seventies she wrote and spoke widely on image-making and the politics of representation and was a co-founder of the ground-breaking journal, "Heresies; A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics." She wrote a series of scripts for avant-garde filmmaker, Manuel De Landa and has produced numerous documentaries such as WAITING FOR THE INVASION, 1984, winner of the Global Village Best Documentary Award in 1984 and TELL THEM FOR US; MADRE IN NICARAGUA, 1985. Recently she has concentrated on a series of video pieces, which she writes and performs -- about women, desire and popular culture -Natalie Didn't Drown and Joan Does Dynasty-. This second piece of the series, was included in the 1987 Whitney Bienniel Exhibition, The Edinburgh Film Festival and The Arts for Television International Show.
A sabbatical year and grant support produced two new pieces: 30 SECOND SPOT RECONSIDERED(11 min., 1988) and NO MORE NICE GIRLS(44 min, 1989

JOAN SEES STARS, 60 min. 1993; Part I - Starsick, Part II- MGM-Movie Goddess Machines premiered in the U.S. in VIDEO VISIONS at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. In the U.K. it opened at the Institute of Contemporary Art & the British Film Theater. Selected shows and prizes include: Chicago Filmmakers; ICA , Boston; American Film Institute, National Video Festival, Los Angeles; Altlanta Film/Video Festival (Best "Dramatic" Criticism); San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film/Video Festival; Black Maria Film/Video Festival, (Juror's Citation); and Women in the Director's Chair.
Her newest work: Video Bites; Triptych for the Turn of the Century premiered in Pandemoniam: Festival for Moving Images, London, Oct. 98.

She was awarded Koopman Chair in the Visual Arts at Hartford Art School, Hartford University for the Fall of 1996 and was given an evening show and "Tribute" at the Northampton Film and Video Festival, Northampton, Massachusetts, in November.

Ms. Braderman has received grant support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Hewlett-Mellon Foundation and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, The Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, among others. She is on the Board of the Independent Television Service, still working to build access to a rich, diverse independent media. (5/00)

Joan Does Dynasty/Joan Sees Stars
Two films by Joan Braderman, 1993, 95 min., Color
In the now classic, JOAN DOES DYNASTY (1986, 35 mins), Braderman superimposes her own image over scenes from one of the most popular night time soap o...