Presented as part of Iowa's first-ever Midwest Graduate Film Studies Symposium

Featuring an in-person lecture and Q&A from Maggie Hennefeld, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Pre-show lecture begins at 6:30pm. The films screen at 7pm.

Arrive early at 5:45pm and enjoy catering from Oasis!

Get ready for Queens of Destruction! This selection of highlights from Kino Lorber’s 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray collection Cinema’s First Nasty Women (curated by film scholars Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi) features eleven recently restored and newly scored comic shorts from the U.S. and Europe that anarchically celebrate feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and queer gender play. Women flood the house, explode out the chimney, raise a ruckus in the streets, and lasso the patriarchy.  Featuring performances by forgotten French comedienne Léontine, Black actress Bertha Regustus, the great lesbian performer Fay Tincher, as well as Sarah Duhamel, Little Chrysia, Alma Taylor, and Chrissie White.

Featured Shorts:

LÉONTINE'S BOAT (France, 1911) 5 min.

TILLY'S PARTY (U.K., 1911), 7 min.

LAUGHING GAS (U.S., 1907) 6 min.

MARY JANE'S MISHAP (U.K., 1903) 4 min.

MADAME PLUMETTE'S FURY (France, 1912) 5 min.

ROSALIE AND HER PHONOGRAPH (France, 1911) 4 min.

LÉONTINE GETS CARRIED AWAY (France, 1911) 6 min.

CUNÉGONDE FEMME-CRAMPON (France, 1912) 8 min.

ROSALIE MOVES IN (France, 1911) 6 min.

LÉONTINE KEEPS HOUSE (France, 1912) 8 min.

ROWDY ANN (U.S., 1919) 23 min.