Johanna Demetrakas | |
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Born | 1937 (age 87–88) |
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Johanna Demetrakas is an American independent filmmaker and television director known for documentaries like Womanhouse and Right Out of History. She has worked as a professor at Cal Arts and USC. [1]
She attended Rhode Island School of Design, where she majored in Illustration. In 1971, Demetrakas co-directed the doc Celebration at Big Sur , which captured performances by Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, and Dorothy Morrison at the Big Sur Folk Festival. The film was acquired by 20th Century Fox. [2] She followed that up with Womanhouse, a doc about the feminist art installation at Cal Arts. [3]