An artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in…
Painted Landscapes of the Times
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To this day, Sue Coe continues to shock and inform the art establishment with her graphic depictions of the world around her. This energetic and moving film introduces Coe’s passionate art and explores her vision. Produced early in her career, it remains the only film on her work. In the tradition of Käthe Kollwitz, George Grosz, and Otto Dix, Coe’s visual journalism has a keen ideological thrust that identifies and addresses aberrations in our society. With a fierce precision Coe uncovers the base violence inherent in a range of political and social issues – from apartheid and the arms industry, to rape and gentrification. Yet, as the film reveals in a spirited exchange between the artist and young people, Coe’s work is accessible to everyone.
PAINTED LANDSCAPES OF THE TIMES features one of Coe’s most memorable works; “Woman Walks into Bar — Is Raped by Four Men on the Pool Table — While 20 Watch”. First exhibited at PPOW Gallery in 1983, this powerful and prescient painting now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art.
"The forthrightly titled PAINTED LANDSCAPES OF THE TIMES roams her visions to chilling effect... her paranoid vistas look as they might after a blow to the head, through curtains of blood." —Village Voice
"This vivid documentary shows how Coe's obsessive art calls viewers in art classes and public libraries to take action." —Booklist
"[Coe's paintings] are undeniably works of great imagination and skill, richly painted and collaged... Perhaps it's that in a land of universal political indifference her rage and frightening moral exhortation are the only serious response. Recommended." —Calvin Reid, Library Journal
"Should prove useful for college courses dealing with contemporary art or with the social and political tradition in art." —M. Nilsen, Choice
"Even if we disagree with Coe's remarks or the stridency of her methods, this film is terribly interesting and could serve as a way to raise issues about the relationship between art and social activism." —Ballast Quarterly Review
Citation
Main credits
Coe, Sue (on-screen participant)
Klodawsky, Helene (film director)
Klodawsky, Helene (film producer)
Aubin, Liette (film producer)
Aubin, Liette (editor of moving image work)
Young, Karen (narrator)
Young, Karen (singer)
Other credits
Edited by Liette Aubin; cinematographer: Judy Irola; composers: René Lussier and Jean Derome.
Distributor subjects
Art; Women's StudiesKeywords
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My work is nothing close to the reality
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of what we see on the street or what happens
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in conflict with groups of people.
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It\'s nothing but a pale shadow.
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There\'s a difference between mass art and people\'s art.
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My art is people\'s art.
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What\'s in them, the major movies that come out of Hollywood
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that\'s mass art, it\'s different.
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Bobby Sands was put in prison in Northern Ireland,
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and he wasn\'t accused of any crime, he\'s put in detention,
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which means you can be imprisoned without having a trial.
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And he became a member of parliament.
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And then he went on hunger strike
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to get better prison conditions.
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Margaret Fletcher refused those conditions.
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And she said, a murderer is a murderer is a murderer.
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And I feel she was describing herself and that\'s her.
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So I don\'t think what we see on television is the truth.
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That\'s a way I draw the victim,
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that one identifies with the victim, not with the oppressor.
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Well, that\'s a woman that had an illegal abortion
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is dead because abortion used to be illegal
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in the United States.
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Now they\'re making it, trying to make it illegal again.
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And that means women will still go ahead and have abortions,
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but they\'ll be medically unsafe, and that\'s when women die.
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Sue Coe\'s shows at the PPOW Gallery.
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Miss Decker, what\'s that thing, a cat?
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Is it a cat?
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visit Sue Coe to talk about her work.
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it says England is a Bitch?
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You\'re turning against England, why?
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they went on the streets to demonstrate
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and say they didn\'t have jobs.
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And the police came and were very violent and beat them up
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with tranches and destroyed the neighborhood by putting up,
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it was Notting Hill Gate and Brixton and up in Liverpool.
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They put up that riot, corrugated riot stuff.
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Have you seen it?
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All along the street so people couldn\'t demonstrate.
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of the king and queen.
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Well, they\'re not queen and king yet.
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That\'s Prince Charles.
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Because all the media, the newspapers,
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weren\'t really reporting the truth
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of people demonstrating on the street,
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they were just reporting the Royal family,
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marrying each other.
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That\'s why I did that.
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from the newspaper like this?
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So every day I go through newspapers, see the television,
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I think, \"Is this entire truth?
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\"Is this everything?\"
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But the reason I\'m painting is the photograph,
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is I\'m trying to get the feeling of what it feels like
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to be shocked, which you can\'t do in a photograph.
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It\'s just like if someone\'s running after you with a gun
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feeling of being pursued, it\'s what I\'m trying to get over.
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his last name Reagan, why do you spell it Raygun?
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about that you call Raygun because
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you think of him as a weapon--
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because he uses them?
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mostly all of them, they have quarter moons.
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What does that mean to you?
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I mean we\'re ignorant of it.
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We\'re in the dark.
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of the buildings, but they want their money.
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The day before the students\' visit to the gallery,
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their teacher asked them to write stories based on articles
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they chose from the newspaper.
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They wrote about their lives as if they themselves
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were the characters in the news.
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I got divorced about six months ago.
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I have four children, I get paid $250 a week.
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The rent is $500, I work 12 hours a day.
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I\'m so tired.
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I have enough work to do with my children and my job.
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I have nowhere to go.
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What\'s gonna happen?
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I\'m so worried about my children.
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The world is so cruel.
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I\'d rather die than to live.
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I am a member of a Jewish family.
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And I realize how I hate President Reagan
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more and more every day.
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Many Jewish people, some of them my relatives,
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were killed in the Holocaust.
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And here President Reagan is putting flowers
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on the graves of Nazi soldiers.
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What he should do is spit on their graves.
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All the people they killed, most of them Jews.
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Even though I hate him so,
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I do not wish any harm to President Reagan,
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because then I\'ll be just as bad as him and even worse.
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If you ask me, those boys had no business bothering me.
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I was riding the train peacefully and all of a sudden,
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some boys pull screwdrivers out on me and try to mug me.
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I tell you, the only reason I carry a gun
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is because I got robbed.
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Man, of all people, why me?
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Because I\'m skinny?
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I showed them.
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I hope they learned their lesson
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and all the other muggers in the train system.
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Look, even if I didn\'t shoot them,
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the cops wouldn\'t have caught them.
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I had a feeling this was going to happen someday
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just \'cause I\'m skinny.
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Watch out muggers.
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You\'re gonna run \'cause I\'m Bernie Goetz,
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the one with the gun.
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Hello, my name is Peter Lawrence Yogi Berra.
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They nicknamed me Yogi because I looked like Yogi Bear.
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When I heard from George Steinbrenner that I was fired
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from manager and out of the Yankee Organization,
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I was pissed off because after over 17 years
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with the Yankees I was replaced by my former teammate
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who was fired times as a Yankee manager.
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My God, when you be pissed.
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It started, felt like crying.
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I sat in the locker room like for four hours
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thinking my life was at Yankee Stadium, that I was a memory.
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Whenever fans go to Yankee Stadium,
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they look at the spot I used to be.
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And who replaced him?
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Me?
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That jackass Billy Morton.
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PS, Steinbrenner is a jackass also.
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I have four children,
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and each one of them has helped in some way
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or support to me or any context that you could make.
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And so that has been very good,
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that\'s a very good feeling to have that kind of support.
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to the White House?
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And if you were, to a state dinner or something,
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would you go?
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to the White House under the three presidents.
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you\'ve see them all.
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We have no particular desire to go back again.
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you said we won\'t get over the Vietnam syndrome
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until we stopped using this intellectual junk food.
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What do you mean by intellectual junk food?
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than I used to do.
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It\'s not my favorite medium and I\'m not their favorite.
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I would say that as far as that is concerned,
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we have been inundated with this hammering about Vietnam.
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And we see these happy Vietnamese women,
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girls riding their bicycles through Ho Chi Minh City,
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and we hear how wonderful it is there and so forth.
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We hear that as a result of our leaving
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that now things are moving better.
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Well, they\'re not.
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What I mean is that that\'s intellectual junk food.
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What we have to do is to hear the truth
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about what has happened.
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And then we will realize that we must not
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let that happen again.
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Not in Nicaragua or any place else.
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I was trying to draw a woman being raped
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because I hadn\'t seen any, you know,
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in art history that were done by women.
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And I started to draw it.
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And then all the women I knew just came,
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they saw me painting the painting.
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They said, no, that\'s not how it is.
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they would draw their feelings of how it felt to be raped.
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So I used that information to build up the painting.
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And then the other one I saw, I went to a courtroom one day
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and I saw a very young girl.
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She had to draw in a black board
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how she was being raped for the attorney.
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And I saw this very crude drawing,
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and it was maybe a 14 or 15-year-old young woman.
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And it was very powerful that sort of courage she had
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to be able to draw that experience.
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So that was the beginning of that series.
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But when women is shown being on television or TV,
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it\'s in a false, untrue way.
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♪ In 1983 ♪
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♪ A Massachusetts woman ♪
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♪ Stopped at the bar ♪
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♪ To buy a pack of cigarettes ♪
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♪ She walked in ♪
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♪ And was raped by four men ♪
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♪ While 20 men watched ♪
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were banned during your recent show in England.
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and was very offended and removed
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the work from the exhibition.
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And then women demonstrated and picked it outside the museum
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until the right painting was returned
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because they said women have a right to show rape.
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I believe it\'s one out of every three women
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under the age of 20 are sexually molested.
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And women have the right to paint that
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and show their feelings.
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give for banning this work?
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In other words, the depiction of the event
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was pornographic, not the event itself,
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but the depiction of the event.
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So we learned a lot by it, I learned a lot.
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I was very happy those women came and saved me.
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I was saved, my work wasa saved and put back.
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by Boston Magazine to accompany a feature article
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on the Massachusetts Rape.
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But when the piece was printed,
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the four men and the pool table were, without warning,
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cut and left out.
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[women vocalizing]
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While Sue\'s illustrations have been commissioned
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by major papers, such as the New York Times
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and the London Times,
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she often finds it hard to get published.
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[somber music]
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Most magazines are reluctant to use her often, if at all.
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She doesn\'t accept art direction and says what she wants to.
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Fed up with censorship and limited distribution,
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Coe now publishes her own books
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in collaboration with others.
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In How To Commit Suicide In South Africa,
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Coe and writer Holly Metz, describe sunny South Africa,
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where murder due to torture is reported as black suicide.
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Bearing witness to war in the 20th century
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by the same authors tells the story of war resisters
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in modern times.
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[dramatic music]
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She\'s a very progressive woman.
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And Bertolt Brecht, who\'s a poet in Germany,
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said this about her.
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Red Rosa now has vanished too,
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where she lies is hid from view.
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She told the poor what life is about,
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and so the rich have rubbed her out.
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And that\'s her and she\'s warning people against fascism.
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[discordant music]
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I wouldn\'t want to deny the truth I see,
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but other folks maybe don\'t see the same sort of truth.
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So they\'re not responsible to do the type of work I do.
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gives people hope or despair?
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Even if the content looks like despair,
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to reveal the truth is hope.
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To camouflage the truth is, there\'s no hope.
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We can\'t learn by that.
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[somber music]
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[loud thud]
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The dark ages.
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So if my work is violent, I\'m sorry.
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When this world is free of racist, sexist violence,
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then you will be free of my art.
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If you remove your bloody nuclear device from my garden,
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then I will find time to paint flowers.
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Until then I\'m painting your portrait,
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which will hang in a gallery in the hope that one day,
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all that will hang there is you.
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Dan Rather reporting from New York.
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Make it a good weekend.
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[discordant music]
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I don\'t think the guys who were there
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really need to be reminded of that.
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I mean, that\'s something that\'s never gonna go away.
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And that\'s like 17 years later, I watched.
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[somber music]
Distributor: Icarus Films
Length: 25 minutes
Date: 1987
Genre: Expository
Language: English
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Closed Captioning: Available
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