Film Club: Anita Holtsclaw

Frances Ha (2013)

5 July 2020

Anita Holtsclaw is an Australian artist, academic and curator. Her works investigate how representation is constructed culturally and can be recontextualised through contemporary feminist art practice. Holtsclaw’s screen-based installations present an expanded and embodied field of vision for the viewer to navigate, re-imagining traditional constructions of the landscape, recollection, memory, simulation, and sight. Holtsclaw’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at respected venues such as: Citè International des Arts, Paris; GOMA, Brisbane; The IMA, Brisbane; Bus Projects, Melbourne; 54th International Young Artists Fair, Beijing; and, the Canberra Contemporary Art Space. She has undertaken international residencies at: No.w.here, London; Citè International des Arts, Paris; and Café Tissardmine, Morocco. Her work is held in private collections nationally.

FILM: Frances Ha (2013) (1hr 22mins) dir. Noah Baumbach

ABOUT: Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she’s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness. A modern comic fable that explores New York, friendship, class, ambition, failure, and redemption.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.