Women’s Film Preservation Fundpresents: Liane Brandon
Anything You Want To Be

Women’s Film Preservation Fund presents: Liane Brandon

classified 12A

part of Reframing Film

Shorts package

Please note: This event took place in July 2024

Director
Liane Brandon, Liane Brandon, Liane Brandon
Details
33 mins, 1971, USA
Primary language
English

We team up with the Women’s Film Preservation Fund to present a trio of shorts by Liane Brandon, one of the first American indie women filmmakers to emerge from the Second Wave Feminist Film Women's Movement.

Award-winning independent filmmaker, photographer and University of Massachusetts/Amherst Professor Emerita Liane Brandon was also a co-founder of New Day Films, the nationally known cooperative that pioneered in the distribution of feminist/social issue films and videos.

The films screening include:

Anything You Want To Be (1971, 8 mins)
A teenager's humorous collision with gender role stereotypes and one of the first independent films of the early women’s movement to explore the external pressures and the more subtle internal pressures a girl faces in finding her identity.

Sometimes I Wonder Who I Am (1972, 5 mins)
This poignant brief portrait of a young mother grew out of the experiences of a group of women who found – as they haltingly expressed to one another their feelings of emptiness, anger, and fear – that they were not alone.

Betty Tells Her Story (1972, 20 mins)
In two continuous takes, a woman sitting in a chair tells a story about the purchase of a dress — twice and the contrast between the two stories reveals her deeper feeling about herself and her place in the world.

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