On Thursday, 7 November, the film collection of the Institute of Media Studies at Paderborn University invites you to a projection and discussion of films by Cathy Joritz in room E2.122 at 3 pm. Joritz (1959-2022) moved between forms, genres and continents as a filmmaker, media artist and film teacher. The event offers a unique opportunity to view and discuss Joritz's entire film oeuvre. The programme ranges from her animation ‘Batman Ann’ (1979), which was created at the Art Institute, to her last digital films in 2020. Filmmaker Marille Hahne, who worked with Cathy Joritz for a long time, will provide insights into her working methods. All interested parties are cordially invited. Further information can be found on the event page.
About Cathy Joritz
Joritz was one of the first supporters of the Archive for Experimental Film by Women, which was initiated by Annette Brauerhoch at the University of Paderborn. Following Joritz's death in 2022, the film collection at the Institute of Media Studies is now also looking after the filmmaker's estate. Joritz was an artist in the spirit of the dissolution of boundaries between the arts and disciplines, with animation at the centre of her work, and commuted between NRW and the USA. Born in Kankakee, Illinois in 1959, she studied at the Art Institute in Chicago from 1978 and began experimenting with claymation and cel animation. She later moved to Dortmund and produced independent works as well as commissioned pieces for the then still young and wild private television programme. She became known for scratch-on animations such as ‘Negative Man’ (1985), ‘Give AIDS the Freeze’ (1991) and ‘The Cowboy's Old West’ (1995), in which she scratched the film layer with an Exacto knife. Karola Gramann spoke enthusiastically of the ‘vicious meticulousness’ with which Joritz transformed the men she filmed into animals and pop icons. At the same time, she also made documentary films, such as the footage of drag queen Chris Palmer's Lip Sync performance in Dortmund's Café de Paris bar, or a film about a young woman's anorexia. She later turned to digital animation - as one of the few members of the feminist experimental movement of the 1980s.
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