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LADIES ROOMS AROUND THE WORLD
Since 1980, I have been photographing and videotaping LADIES ROOMS AROUND THE WORLD. From the Aboriginal Outback to Zambia, Bombay to Bosnia, Rio to Tel Aviv, the lens captures vulnerable moments where the Secrets of Women are disclosed.
The short films, ranging in subject matter from political outcry to celebration of the feminine, are diverse in form. The first short I made was in an Aboriginal bar where the women dragged me into the ladies room to talk, as they were afraid the men would overhear. As the only white woman in the bar, they felt they had a conduit to the outside world and needed to report the rape and incest that was rampant in the village.
The most recent LADIES ROOM film I finished I shot at Burning Man. The LADIES ROOM film I am currently working on, for which I am asking your help, I shot with experts in the field of sex (therapists, surrogates, Tantricas, gender benders, etc.) at a “Sexuality Conference” in New York City. This last film celebrates sex and provokes gender issues in a highly entertaining way.
The LADIES ROOMS project includes photography, videos, a book, museum exhibitions, and an interactive website designed for exchange and change with the intent of empowering women for the good of all.
We’ve spent the support from the New York State Council on the Arts and friends, so we hope you’ll help us take the next step. To date, all the shorts have been shot, in fact, made by myself. For this latest, feature film director of cinematography Nancy Schreiber, winner of the Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award and Women in Film Crystal Award for Vision, shot in the most beautiful ladies room in New York City. We need finishing funds for this latest short in the series.
Our intention is that this short will be part of a touring museum exhibition; we will submit it to film festivals and we’ve considered it as the start for a feature film.
Make your contribution here and receive films and art for your walls, which you can check out on the websites.
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Maxi Cohen is an independent filmmaker and an artist working in photography and video.
Her feature documentaries have played in movie theaters and on television internationally. Television series and programs as well as shorts produced by Maxi have been on network and cable.
Maxi’s first “TV for social change” experiment was a weekly TV series in Cape May, N.J., a town headed for architectural demise. As a result of the show and the subsequent political activity, the town became one of four landmarked towns in the country, forever changing its social, cultural and economic future. Maxi’s first feature documentary, the theatrically released JOE AND MAXI about her relationship with her father, noted for pushing the language of the documentary genre, has been restored (35mm print, NYWIFT Preservation Fund, MoMA). For the feature film SEVEN WOMEN - SEVEN SINS (ZDF) she directed the sin of ANGER. And for the feature documentary SOUTH CENTRAL, LA: INSIDE VOICES (aired on Showtime), she gave camcorders to African-Americans, Latinos and Koreans living in the areas of the LA Riots.
Maxi’s works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and have also shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Jewish Museum in New York, and many other museums, venues, and festivals around the world.
Concurrent with art and film projects, two kits that include art, a book, and a pendulum have been published: THE ART OF THE PENDULUM and THE POCKET PENDULUM (Andrews McMeel).
Maxi was a co-founder of the Independent Feature Project and First Run Features (the first company to distribute indie films theatrically), a board member of Women in Film, the first administrator of Electronic Arts Intermix (the preeminent distributor for video art), as well as a participant of a number of historic production/distribution events.
