The Heretics uncovers the inside story of a pivotal force in the "second wave" of the Women's Movement. Director Joan Braderman, who followed her dream of becoming a filmmaker in New York City in 1971, where she joined the feminist art collective Heresies at the epicenter of the 1970s art world in lower Manhattan, traces the history of the collective for the first time in a feature film. -length film or video. Unlike more traditional "documentaries," the film is framed with stunning new digital motion graphics. Consisting of intimate interviews with former members of the collective, archival footage from the 1970s, and documents from the Heresies collective, which published HERESIES: A feminist publication on art and politics from 1977 to 1992, The Heretics sees the collective in the context of the second widest. -wave movement, which was made up of thousands of people who met in small, private groups to discuss issues and launch programs and actions relevant to women. The hundreds of members of Heresies, now...