Birthing Bodies Screening, Talk, and Reception

Film still from Stan Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving, 1959

Join us at 7:00 pm on November 2 for a screening of Stan Brakhage’s Window Water Baby Moving on 16mm film, with a discussion to follow with UAlbany Professor Shira Segal. The evening will conclude with a reception. This event is part of programming for the exhibition Birthing Bodies, which explores the female, pregnant, and birthing body as a site of strength and power.

This event is free and open to the public.

About Professor Shira Segal

Shira Segal is the Director of Film Studies at the University at Albany and a feminist documentary and experimental film studies scholar. Segal’s dissertation, Home Movies and Home Birth: The Avant-garde Childbirth Film and Pregnancy in New Media was informed by her research and work on Stan Brakhage and his birth films.

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