Filmmakers
Yvonne Rainer
Birth: Nov. 24, 1934
Official Website: None
Major Works: MURDER and murder (1996)
Privilege (1990)
The Man Who Envied Women (1985)
Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980)
Film About a Woman Who… (1974)
Lives of Performers (1972)
Notes: Also a choreographer who studied with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Her most famous dance performance is The Mind Is a Muscle.
Wrote the memoir Feelings Are Facts: A Life.
1988: Recipient of AFI’s Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.
Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Senses of Cinema: Profile
New York Times: Profile
Video: Trio A
[...] the second screening in the L.A. Filmforum’s season-long retrospective of the work of Yvonne Rainer, they will be screening her most famous and popular film, the 1974 feature Film About a Woman [...]