Joan Braderman

Joan Braderman, professor of video, film, and media studies, holds a BA from Harvard and MA and MPhil from NYU. Her award-winning documentaries and art videos (such as JOAN DOES DYNASTY, 1986 & JOAN SEES STARS, 1992) have been shown on PBS, cable, in galleries, festivals and universities internationally and are in the permanent collections of museums such as the Stedelijk, Amsterdam, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. A founder of HERESIES, A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, writing by and about her has appeared in such places as: The Village Voice, The Independent, Time Out, Afterimage, The London Guardian and "Illuminations; An Essential Guide to Video Art." Joan received a retrospective at the De Cordova Museum, the Koopman Chair in the Visual Arts at Hartford Art School and the 2002 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Video, Portugal. Grants include: National Endowment for the Arts, N.Y. and Massachusetts State Councils for the Arts and American Film Institute. Joan has also taught at School of Visual Arts, Boston Museum School and London Art Institute. Professor Braderman is currently making a new experimental documentary feature, THE HERETICS, about the Women's Art Movement in NYC: [www.heresiesfilmproject.org]. (09/09)

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...