On Film and Framed: Curatorial Collective Presents:

Lizzie Borden and Sex/Labor

three feature films and an art exhibition

CITY Magazine interview with Borden and VCS Ph.D. candidate Bridget Fleming, “Director Lizzie Borden Shows Sex Work is Just Another Job” by Patrick Hosken

event description:

On November 20th, On Film is honored to collaborate with The Little Theatre (240 East Avenue) to co-host a double feature of Lizzie Borden’s Regrouping (1976) and Born in Flames (1983). This event is part of The Little’s High Falls Women in Film series. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Borden. 

On November 21st, On Film and Framed: Curatorial Collective have planned an evening of events that will take place at the University of Rochester’s River Campus. We will screen an Borden’s third film, Working Girls (1986), in the Gowan Room, located in the campus’ Wilson Commons. Following the film screening is the opening reception of Sex/Labor at the Hartnett Gallery (also in Wilson Commons), an art exhibition that places Working Girls into conversation with contemporary art about sex work. The reception will include a paneled discussion with Borden and two artists whose work is part of Sex/Labor: Barbara Nitke and Antonia Crane.  

EXHIBITION

SEX/LABOR

exhibition at the Hartnett Gallery (Wilson Commons, University of Rochester) open from Nov 21-Dec 18, 2024

These events are generously co-sponsored by The Little Theater; The Humanities Project; The Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies; The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Woman’s Studies; The Hartnett Gallery; The Visual Studies Workshop; and the Departments of Art and Art History; Anthropology, English, Film and Media Studies, and Health Humanities and Bioethics

poster designed by Catalina Segú