MIA presents The Motherhood Archives, a film by Irene Lusztig

  • Type: event
  • Location: The Armory, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, 91104, US
  • Starts: May 22 2015 at 8:00PM
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MIA presents The Motherhood Archives, a film by Irene Lusztig

MIA is pleased to present The Motherhood Archives (2013), an essay film on the complicated history of maternal education and childbirth by filmmaker Irene Lusztig. Assembled from a fascinating range of educational, industrial, and medical training films in homage to 70s feminist filmmaking, Lusztig traces the implications of postmodern birthing suites and natural birth movements back to the first emergence of anesthetic ether in the 19th century. Revealing a world of intensive training, rehearsal, and performative preparation for the unknown that is ultimately incommensurate with experience, The Motherhood Archives is a meditation on the maternal body as a site of institutional control, ideological surveillance, medical knowledge, and nationalist state intervention.

A film by Irene Lusztig
THE MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES
22 MAY 2015 – 8PM (free)
The Armory
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91104