Kim Longinotto Retrospective

At the Museum of Modern Art, New York - May 7 to May 23, 2009

One of the foremost documentary filmmakers working today, Kim Longinotto is renowned internationally for her compellingly human portraits and her sensitive and compassionate treatment of difficult topics. By seeking out, observing, and following the untold stories of women’s daily lives, she has created cinéma vérité portraits of the larger society and cultural customs. Longinotto’s first film, Pride of Place, a critical look at a girls’ boarding school, was made while she studied camera and directing at England’s National Film School. Theatre Girls, shot in a hostel for homeless women, followed soon after. These films established Longinotto’s capacity for confronting some of the most difficult aspects of women’s realities around the world. After graduating from the NFS, she worked as the cameraperson on a variety of documentaries for TV and embarked on collaborations with several film partners. In 1986, she formed the production company Twentieth Century Vixen with Claire Hunt. (more…)