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1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
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Maria Irene Fornes |
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Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2018. |
| Summary |
Maria Irene Fornes was one of America's greatest playwrights and most influential teachers, but many know her only as the ex-lover of writer and social critic Susan Sontag. The visionary Cuban-American dramatist constructed astonishing worlds on-stage, writing over 40 plays and winning nine Obie Awards. At the vanguard of the nascent Off-Off Broadway experimental theater movement in NYC, Fornes is often referred to as American theater's "Mother Avant-Garde." When she gradually stops writing due to dementia, an unexpected friendship with filmmaker Michelle Memran reignites her spontaneous creative spirit and triggers a decade-long collaboration that picks up where the pen left off. Official Selection at the **Frameline Film Festival**, **Miami Film Festival**, and **MoMA Doc Fortnight**. Named one of “The Best Movies of 2018” by The New Yorker. Nominated for an **AARP Movies for Grownups Award** for Best Documentary. *“Intimate and exhilarating...Fornes exerts a hypnotic force of stardom, while her offhanded yet urgent remarks resound with life-tested literary authority." - Richard Brody, **The New Yorker*** |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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In English |
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Theater.
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Women's studies.
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LGBTQ.
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Artists.
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Homosexuality.
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Performing arts.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Memran, Michelle, film director.
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Irene Fornes, Maria, actor.
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Women Make Movies (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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6760903 Kanopy |
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