Yvonne Rainer – MRQE

MURDER and murder

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.

The Man Who Envied Women

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Manhattan professor’s (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

Journeys from Berlin/1971

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

Kristina Talking Pictures

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist concerned about the environment, has a sailor lover named Raoul. The film, a collage work, an essay film, a fictional narrative and a documentary all rolled into one, is one of the most important independent American feminists films made during the 1970’s.

Film About a Woman Who…

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rainers landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

Lives of Performers

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Embodying Rainers aesthetic rigor and wit, the film combines fiction and documentary, script readings, dance snippets, still photos, and tableaux vivants to explore issues of power and gender that influence the emotional lives of her performers.

Privilege

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive malaise of isms that artificially define and characterize empowerment in contemporary society: ageism, sexism, economic elitism, and racism. Yvonne Rainer conveys texture through the intercutting of archival footage, video, and film – as well as compositional layering through the film-within-a-film structure, elliptical (and self-referential) fusion of past and present, and the filmmaker’s idiosyncratic penchant for superimposed typed text.