Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman. 1974. Directed by Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow The Only Girl in the Orchestra. 2023. Directed by Molly O’Brien

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Introduced by Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow, Orin O’Brien, and Molly O’Brien

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Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman. 1974. USA. Directed by Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow. Courtesy Academy Film Archive

Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman. 1974. USA. Directed by Judy Collins, Jill Godmilow. With Antonia Brico, Judy Collins. 4K digital restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. North American premiere. 58 min.

The Only Girl in the Orchestra. 2023. USA. Directed by Molly O’Brien. With Orin O’Brien. 34 min.

With special guest appearances by the singer-songwriter Judy Collins and documentarian Molly O’Brien, the closing night of To Save and Project is dedicated to two women who broke barriers at the New York Philharmonic: the conductor Antonia Brico and the double bassist Orin O’Brien. Jill Godmilow and Judy Collins’s Oscar-nominated Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974) is a documentary about Brico, Collins’s mentor, who in 1938 became the first woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic. O’Brien’s The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2023) is a newly made portrait of the filmmaker’s aunt Orin O’Brien, who in 1966 became the first female musician in the history of the New York Philharmonic when Leonard Bernstein hired her as a double bassist.

This film accompanies To Save and Project: The 20th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation.

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