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→ Experience the museum’s inaugural Composer gallery installation, created
by Academy Award-winner Hildur Guðnadóttir. Part of the museum’s Stories of Cinema exhibition.
This wide-ranging series began in November and concludes with two documentaries, a sci-fi classic, and a modern coming-of-age story. The field of composing film scores—the music that accompanies key moments, guides emotions, and brings depth to documentary and fiction films alike—is dominated by men. According to The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, in 2019, men scored 94% of the 250 top-grossing domestic films. But focusing on this gap risks underscoring the myth that women have not been breaking new ground and pushing boundaries in this field for decades. In conjunction with the Academy Museum’s Composer gallery, created by Oscar-winner Hildur Guðnadóttir, this series celebrates some of those women composers.
Programmed by Kiva Reardon Notes by Kiva Reardon and Robert Reneau
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