Johanna Demetrakas


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.

Career

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. She followed that up with Womanhouse, a doc about the feminist art installation at Cal Arts.

Selected filmography

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? Relocation, Arkansas: Aftermath of Incarceration Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche O La La Out of Line Bus Rider's Union Some Nudity Required Homesick The Three Worlds of Bali Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party Womanhouse