Moving pictures: Intersections between art, film and feminism in the 1970s

This article traces the intersections and overlaps between women working in art, avant-garde film and cinema in the 1970s. I argue that the context of second-wave feminism connected individuals working in diverse practices through shared interrogations of form and content as well as the interdisciplinary infrastructure of the women’s movement. However, I also consider the impact of different contexts, communities and media on artwork, film and video by women artists to trace a complex field of political aesthetic practices influenced by feminism. My overarching argument is that collaboration, broadly conceived, provides a way to think through the formation of this alternative cultural scene.