“Video was a brand new art form that had not yet been colonized by men, and the male gaze could easily be short-circuited if you had a woman behind the camera.”
– Art historian and
Getty conservator Jonathan Furmanski, on digitizing the relics of a 1970s feminist video exchange network known as “International Videoletters.” Only six tapes survived, containing rare interviews and testimonies. “As histories get written, rewritten and masculinized, these women’s stories are very much in danger of disappearing,” Furmanski tells writer
Anya Ventura about the urgency of their preservation.
