Red Velvet Seat Rediscovering women’s films and writings
2 - 3 May 2007 Austrian Film Museum www.filmmuseum.at

Antonia Lant, professor at the New York University and author of the book Red Velvet Seat, discovers a rich female film culture developed from women of literature, directors, actresses, and supported by film- and fashion magazines. Lant's book includes essays by Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Zelda Fitzgerald, Colette, Katherine Mansfield, Anita Loos, Germaine Dulac, Maya Deren, Lillian Gish and Sarah Bernhardt.

The Austrian Film Museum presents the book by Antonia Lant and newly restored works of the years between 1910 and 1990 of filmmakers who dared to challenge the male domain of cinema. Over the past decade the Women’s Film Preservation Fund in New York has preserved more than 50 endangered films by women for the future. 12 of these works can now be seen at the Film Museum. more film >>>

photo: Unmasked Anonym, 1917