REMINDER – Free Screening and Reception: Thank You and Goodnight (Women Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories Series)
RSVP here, and email membership@nywift.org if you have already registered and can no longer attend, or would like to be placed on the waitlist.
For the fourth season, New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) presents the Women Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories Screening Series — a free screening series of work by women filmmakers focusing on the immigrant experience throughout the five boroughs of New York City. This series showcases a themed exhibition of short and feature-length films. Join us for the opening night, co-sponsored screening of Thank You and Good Night directed by Jan Oxenberg at the Queens World Film Festival.
Thank You and Good Night
Jan Oxenberg (Director)
1991, 83 mins
Thank You and Goodnight is an innovative blend of cinema verite, drama and comic surrealism featuring cutout figures of the filmmaker and her grandmother along with childlike manifestations of metaphysical transformations.
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Jan Oxenberg started the Barnard Columbia Experimental College, which boasted Kate Millett as its first faculty member and existed as a residential program for many years. Oxenberg then transferred to California Institute of the Arts to join the feminist art program led by Judy Chicago. “I had absolutely no artistic talent,” Oxenberg says, “so I started making films.” During a summer school class at UCLA, she made her first 16mm film – Home Movie – about coming out as a lesbian. After her success with Thank You and Goodnight, Oxenberg was invited to develop her follow-up feature, Girlfriend Confidential, at the Sundance Screenwriting Lab. an Oxenberg is the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships for her film work, and is profiled in the books The Celluloid Closet and The Prime Time Closet.
Date: Tuesday March 20, 2018
Time: 7PM
Location: Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106
Screening followed by a Q&A and reception with the filmmakers.
Free Admission. RSVP in advance to reserve seats.
Contact membership@nywift.org with any questions, change to your existing reservations, or to be placed on the waitlist. Please make sure to let us know if you can no longer attend.
Special Thanks
NYC Council Member Robert Holden
Queens World Film Festival
Museum of the Moving Image
Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room
3601 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY
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NYWIFT programs, screenings and events are supported, in part, by grants from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
