Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History

Directed by Cheri Gaulke

Cast: Susan Rennie, Kirsten Grimstad

Animation, Fine Arts Spotlight, Shorts Competition, Women in Film
United States
Art History, documentary, Feminist, LGBTQ+
English
2025
9 mins

Feminist scholar, Susan Rennie, seizes her iPhone and sneaks her queer, octogenarian body into master works of art, disrupting the narrative of the male gaze.

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Documentary Shorts 2 -Bodies, Work, Becoming

Documentary Shorts 2 is a celebration of resilience, creativity, and the ways people reclaim power, through art, movement,…

Dates & Times

Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium

November 8, 2025
2:45 pm