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Cave Girls (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Cave Girls' is a 1984 New York No Wave underground film by Kiki Smith (co-directed with Ellen Cooper)[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44109865 FROM POOFO TO CAVE GIRLS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ELLEN COOPER AND KIKI SMITH at 'The Journal of Cinema and Media No. 21' (SUMMER 1983), pp. 28-30] created on Super 8 between 1981 and 1984.[https://hyperallergic.com/537382/kiki-smith-on-cave-girls-collaboration-and-some-of-her-earliest-works/ Kiki Smith interviewed] by Joseph Nechvatal on 'Cave Girls', Collaboration, and Some of Her Earliest Works, published January 14, 2020 at HyperallergicCarlo McCormick, 'The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene, 19741984', Princeton University Press, 2006 that makes use of Stan Brakhage-like montage cutting.
Cave girls collective
'Cave Girls', as an independent film, emerged out of a loose New York City female collective that included Kiki Smith, Ellen Cooper, Cara Brownell, Bush Tetras, Ilona Granet, Marnie Greenholz, Julie Harrison, Becky Howland, Virge Piersol, Judy Ross, Bebe Smith, Teri Slotkin, Y Pants and Sophie VDT. All women appear in the film and in photographic stills.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4464082/ Cave Girls (1982)] listed at IMDb the Internet Movie Database
Screenings
Cara Brownell and Julie Harrison produced a video broadcast of 'Cave Girls' for Colab's artists TV series on Manhattan Cable called 'Potato Wolf'. 'Cave Girls' was also shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Synopsis
Partially inspired by the Raquel Welch performance in the 1966 film 'One Million Years B.C.', in the 'Cave Girls' film, young women speak about the idea of cave girls as a defense mechanism against street harassment by men and fantasize about a matriarchal society free of all men.
Kiki Smith refers to 'Cave Girls' as an unfinished ersatz documentary, like the 1964 'A Hard Days Night' movie, that starred the Beatles. Conceived as a spoof on the apocalyptic, there are sections of 'Cave Girls' where the women artists talk about how the film is going and how the film concerns the survival of young women and the survival of the very film they are making.
Music
Part of 'Cave Girls' includes Bush Tetras music playing over long passages of out of focus, foggy, visually noisy, action.
Locations
Part of the film was shot in a downtown loft, in the countryside in New Jersey, and at the bombed out looking backyard of ABC No Rio.Alan W. Moore and Marc Miller, eds. 'ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery' New York: ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects, 1985.
References
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