
Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.... (Full plot summary below)
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Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing political consequences of discrimination and violence, the Feminist Art Revolution radically transformed the art and culture of our times.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. Anderson[The] footage -- some 125 hours of it -- became perhaps the only known record of an entire movement of art that was otherwise unseen and undocumented. |
| PopMattersMatt MazurWhat the director succeeds in doing is constructing a powerful educational tool that incorporates primary documents and oral histories of the women who made the movement, giving them space to finally have their voices heard. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongIt's both enlightening and a bit messy, but then history is always messy. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallContrasting with the ferment of the times, the film is orderly and rather subdued, but it's an excellent introduction to a movement that produced artists as diverse as Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, and Miranda July. |
| Boston GlobeSebastian SmeeIt's affecting, and the tone, which is polemical, is also rueful and realistic. |
| New York TimesRachel SaltzThese interviews form the backbone of !W.A.R., and like the film, they're passionate, contentious, funny, sincere, politically attuned. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceHas meaningful things to say about race, class, power, sexuality, and economics as well. |
| Times-PicayuneMike ScottThese women deserve to have their voices heard, and this film finally lets them have their say. |
| Film Comment MagazineElisabeth SubrinAn intimate, insider portrait of the most influential art movement of the late 20th century. |
| Time OutDavid FearThankfully, Lynn Hershman-Leeson's loosely organized doc offers a long-overdue primer on what these radical groundbreakers accomplished. |