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Logan Kibens Spotlights Women Film Directors
Revealing Feminist Film History Ah, the “P” word: Parity. As the film industry grapples with leveling the field for women behind the camera, CalArts alumna Logan Kibens (Film/Video MFA 10) took a prime opportunity to make sure their historic work to date isn’t overlooked. As consulting producer on I Love Dick, she curated the homages that appear in titillating clips throughout the hit series’ four episodes, revealing a truncated survey of feminist film history. (Check out The Huffington Post story on Kibens’ offering through A Guide to Feminist Film that includes the clips aired in the show.) Transparent creator Jill Soloway directed the Amazon Prime series, which is set in Marfa, Texas, (the location for George Stevens’ 1956 Oscar-winning film Giant). The series adapts experimental filmmaker Chris Kraus’ 1997 feminist novel about a struggling couple, Chris and Sylvere, who become obsessed with a charismatic professor named Dick. (A Vulture article, detailing Soloway’s journey with the work, notes that the “Dick” in question is former CalArts faculty Dick Hebdige, who was Dean of the School of Critical Studies and Director of its Experimental Writing Program from 2001 to 2008.) In addition to receiving her MFA in Film Directing from CalArts, Writer/Director Kibens is also a 2012 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow and recipient of the HBO/DGA Directing Fellowship. She has worked as a commercial editor and directed several features, including The Operator, a dramedy about a programmer and a budding comedian who are happily married—until they use each other in their work. The film was released in 2016 at festivals and theatrically to strong reviews.
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Logan Kibens is consulting producer on the hit series I Love Dick.