Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy shorts program and Q&A (2025)
1 hr 26 min
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- Join us for this unmissable extravaganza of 11 rollicking short films about women who break kitchen plates and explode social boundaries! First, we open with Breaking Plates (2024), Karen Pearlman’s raucous new documentary about “the not so silent women of the silent era.” Featuring archival footage and dance reenactment, this film is inspired by the creative mayhem and wild physicality of Cinema’s First Nasty Women, a collection featuring fourteen hours of rarely seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. Pearlman’s documentary will be followed by 10 short silent films from Cinema’s First Nasty Women (all with new music!) in which women break dishes, explode out of the chimney, go on strike, weaponize magical umbrellas, upend the gender binary, and discombobulate the patriarchy by any means necessary!
