How We Are Seen… | Three Short Documentaries by Jan Krawitz with Discussion to Follow @ Stanford

"How we are seen no doubt changes how we see ourselves."
- Gloria Steinem

Join us for a screening of three short documentaries by Jan Krawitz, followed by a discussion with the director.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.

About the Films
MIRROR MIRROR, 17 minutes
This film provocatively explores the relationship between female body image and the quest for an elusive ideal.

IN HARM’S WAY, 25 minutes
A personal memoir that questions the fragile myths instilled in children growing up in the Cold War era.

NICE GIRLS DON'T ASK, 17 minutes
Offering a cautionary tale in the current political climate, the film casts an incisive lens on the “rules for living” embodied in archival social guidance films.

About the Filmmaker
Jan Krawitz is Professor Emerita in the Stanford Department of Art & Art History. Her documentaries have screened at festivals in the U.S. and abroad including Sundance, The New York Film Festival, SXSW, AFI Docs, Edinburgh, Visions du Réel, Full Frame, and the Krakow Film Festival. Six of her films received a national broadcast on PBS (Independent Lens, P.O.V., America ReFramed) and Big Enough was broadcast internationally in eighteen countries. She has had artist residencies at Yaddo, Docs in Progress (Washington, D.C.), and the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy. Jan was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard and a recent Fulbright Scholar in Austria.

VISITOR INFORMATION
Oshman Hall is located within the McMurtry Building on Stanford campus at 355 Roth Way. Visitor parking is available in designated areas and is free after 4pm on weekdays. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle. If you need a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Julianne White at jgwhite@stanford.edu. This event is open to Stanford affiliates and the general public. Admission is free.