The Heretics (2009)

Directors

Joan Braderman

The story

The Heretics is a semi-autobiographical documentary, following Braderman's first-person account of her arrival in New York City in 1971 and her introduction to the arts culture of Lower Manhattan. This narrative becomes a framing device for the bulk of the film, which consists of intimate interviews with former Heresies Collective members, documenting their involvement with Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics and exploring feminism in the art world during the height of the second wave women’s movement, as well as in modern times. The titles of both the magazine and film were inspired by the credo, "new truths begin as…

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