Rolex Testimonee and Master of Cinema of Cinema Kathryn Bigelow goes where No Woman has gone
The first and only woman ever with an Oscar for directing, Kathryn Bigelow found that when her mentor Lawrence Weiner challenged and frustrated her, he effectively shaped her creative process
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Kathryn Bigelow is the first ? and still only ? woman to ever win the Academy Award for Best Director. The auteur of 2008?s The Hurt Locker, had originally studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, eking out a humble living as a painter while staying with her first two influences, American painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and influential performance artist Vito Acconci. Not long after, she entered the graduate film program at Columbia University, where she studied theory and criticism under mentors like Acconci, Susan Sontag, and Lawrence Weiner. If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Rolex Testimonee and Master of Cinema Kathryn Bigelow Goes where No Woman has gone before
Though many remember her first directorial debut The Loveless, as her first feature film to gain critical acclaim in 1981. Bigelow recalled during a 1995 interview that it was her experimental short film and MFA thesis The Set-Up that caught the eye of Academy Award winning director Jan Tomá? “Milo?” Forman. It ...
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Kathryn Bigelow is the first ? and still only ? woman to ever win the Academy Award for Best Director. The auteur of 2008?s The Hurt Locker, had originally studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, eking out a humble living as a painter while staying with her first two influences, American painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and influential performance artist Vito Acconci. Not long after, she entered the graduate film program at Columbia University, where she studied theory and criticism under mentors like Acconci, Susan Sontag, and Lawrence Weiner. If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
Rolex Testimonee and Master of Cinema Kathryn Bigelow Goes where No Woman has gone before
Though many remember her first directorial debut The Loveless, as her first feature film to gain critical acclaim in 1981. Bigelow recalled during a 1995 interview that it was her experimental short film and MFA thesis The Set-Up that caught the eye of Academy Award winning director Jan Tomá? “Milo?” Forman. It ...
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