MADAME X: AN ABSOLUTE RULER Saturday 5/7 @ 11:00 am 1977, 16mm transferred to DVD, color, sound, 141 minutes, NR Written, Directed, and Produced by Ulrike Ottinger

Ottinger’s first feature length film,  Madame X, pirate queen of the China seas,  promises “gold, love, and adventure” to women who will leave their mundane lives behind and join her quest to loot and plunder the bourgeoisie and dash all sexual boundaries... with Tabea Blumenschein, Roswitha Jantz, Irena Von Lichtenstein, and Yvonne Rainer courtesy of Women Make Movies