Dr. Horak Presents the Ottawa Premiere of Cinema’s First Nasty Woman at the Mayfair Theater
Saturday, March 18 at 7:00 pm to Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 12:00 am
- In-person event
Ottawa Premiere of Cinema’s First Nasty Women: March 18
The International Film Festival of Ottawa presents CINEMA’S FIRST NASTY WOMEN: GENDER ADVENTURES
Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 7PM
Mayfair Theater, 1074 Bank Street, Ottawa
A Ho-Chunk actress performing spectacular stunts, a cross-dressing girl spy, and a Brokeback Mountain story made in 1911!
Not to mention a gun-toting ranch owner in leopard-print chaps and a topsy-turvy wedding set “100 years from now–when men have become more like women and women more like men”!
Check out this selection of films from CINEMA’S FIRST NASTY WOMEN, a collection of 99 rarely seen silent films about feminist protest, anarchic slapstick destruction, and suggestive gender play that the New York Times calls “a triumph”!
Films include:
- The Red Girl and the Child (1910, 17 min.), from Museum of Modern Art – starring Lilian St. Cyr (Ho-Chunk)
- The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (1910, 15 min), from Eye Filmmuseum – starring writer-director-producer Gene Gaunthier
- A Range Romance (1911, 13 min.), from Library of Congress – performers unknown
- The Night Rider (1920, 25 min), from Lobster Films – starring Texas Guinan
- What’s the World Coming To? (1926, 23 mi,), from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival – starring Katherine Grant
Total runtime: 92 min.
The program will feature live musical accompaniment by pianist Dana Reason and percussionist Peter Valsalmis.
Carleton Film Studies Professor Laura Horak, co-curator of Cinema’s First Nasty Women, will introduce the screening.
TO BUY TICKETS: https://www.iffo.ca/
To purchase the Bluray/DVD: https://unobstructedview.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=cinema%27s+first+nasty+women
