Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018) is a documentary by Johanna Demetrakas you can watch online on iFILM. It starts with a 1977 photo book that caught women in the act of shedding the rules they'd been raised on.

Four decades later, the film tracks down those same women and asks what stuck. Artist Judy Chicago, musician Laurie Anderson, and actors Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Sally Kirkland sit down to talk about freedom, the body, and the right to speak up. The old portraits keep rhyming with present-day headlines, and the overlap is uncomfortable.

Running 86 minutes, it never hardens into a lecture — it's one generation that remembers how things were talking to the one still figuring it out. A solid pick for viewers who like documentaries about art and social change. Stream Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018) online on iFILM.