Star 80 - 35MM + Q&A

The Whitney Review of New Writing and artist Cristine Brache present Star 80, Bob Fosse’s landmark 1983 film on the tragic murder of Playmate Dorothy Stratten, in connection with Brache’s new essay on Stratten’s life and poetry.

There is a renewed cultural interest in Stratten—one that reframes her as an actor, poet, and voice in her own right, revising how her story has been filtered through the perspectives and ambitions of the men around her.

Brache’s accompanying short films expand these concerns through meditations on spectacle, voyeurism, memory, and disappearance, examining how women’s inner lives are shaped and obscured by image-making.

Conversations programmed together with screenings bring together figures reshaping how women’s roles within the image economy are constructed.

Monday June 1st — with Lili Anolik & Allie Rowbottom, celebrating Rowbottom’s new book, Lovers XXX

Friday June 5th — with Alissa Bennett & Gabrielle Richardson 

VIDEO ART

Disneyland (2024)

Cristine Brache

1 min 24 secs

Reworking Dorothy Stratten’s 1980 Tonight Show appearance, Disneyland layers slowed footage and Stratten’s poetry to conjure the ghost of an interior life obscured by celebrity image-making. 

Wild Memories by Yukina (2023)

Cristine Brache

1 min 25 secs

Found footage from a fetish video is interwoven with intimate home recordings of love and domestic life.

The Well (2026)

Cristine Brache

4 mins 34 secs