IMA alumna Kelly Spivey’s film, The Liberation of Helene Aylon, premieres at MIX NYC 28th Queer Experimental Film Festival, as part of the New Wave, No Wave, Tidal Wave: Feminisms Old and New short film screening.
The MIX Factory
Nov.12th at 7:30pm
This intimate film portrait explores how one Jewish Orthodox woman became a contemporary feminist artist. Aylon’s life literally transforms, due to several factors, not the least of which was the feminist movement of the seventies. Still an active artist today at 84, Helène Aylon was raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn, a traditional Orthodox Jewish community