Press release for screening of Yvonne Rainer's The Man Who Envied Women
(1986)
SATURDAY EVENING MAR 1986 VISITING ARTIST Saturday, March 1, 1986, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 8:00pm. General admission is $3.00. Admission for Carnegie Institute members, senior citizens, and students is $2.50. Mar. 1 The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Yvonne Rainer, U.S. 125 minutes Yvonne Rainer began her career in dance, choreography, and performance work in the late 1950s. In 1972, after having integrated slides and short films into her live performances, she continued her exploration of the moving image with her first feature-length film Lives of the Performers. This film launched her reputation as one of the leading contemporary avant-garde filmmakers. Rainer will be here to present her latest work The Man Who Envied Women which, with the unique style characterizing her four previous features, explores issues of sexuality, aging, power relations, and political activism. "In-their multi-leveled disjointed style, her films revive the lessons of Duchamp, the Cubists, even the epic, to create melodramas for our time, works which address the fractured sensibility of anyone living in the difficult world of modern culture." — B. Ruby Rich
