Johanna Demetrakas

Johanna Demetrakas is an eminent Los Angeles-based film-maker, writer, teacher, producer, director and editor.

Womanhouse

by Johanna Demetrakas (1974, 47 min, Couleur)

Womanhouse is an historic documentary about one of the most important feminist cultural events of the 1970s. Judy Chicago (best-known as the creator of The Dinner Party) and Miriam Shapiro rented an old Hollywood mansion and altered its interior through decor and set-pieces to “search out and reveal the female experience. Womanhouse is a fascinating historical look at feminism, its reception in the 1970s, and the ever-important relationship between the art and social change.