Released:
2012-06-18

Overview:
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Carolee Schneemann, Hills’s cinematic inventions literally turn the screen upside down and inside out. In this epic journey into the picaresque, we follow Emma Bee Bernstein, our intrepid protagonist, from her pre-teen innocence to her late teen-attitude, as she learns about the downtown art scene firsthand. In the process, Hills reimagines the art of video in a style that achieves the density, complexity, and visual richness of his greatest films.

Director:
Henry Hills

Runtime:
1h 23min

Genre:
Documentary, History

• Cast:
• 
  Emma Bee Bernstein
  as
  Herself
• 
  Carolee Schneemann
  as
  Herself
• 
  Jackson Mac Low
  as
  Himself
• 
  Ken Jacobs
  as
  Himself
• 
  Cheryl Donegan
  as
  Herself