“10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This November”
By Matt Stromberg
29 Oct. 2025
Sabrina Gschwandtner’s sewn and colored 35mm film quilts draw from cinematic history to offer examples of women’s independence and bodily autonomy for a post-Roe world. Ironically, she finds these precedents in two early films from a pre-Roe world directed by women: Alice Guy-Blaché’s “Madame’s Cravings” (1906), in which a pregnant woman steals while her partner minds the child, and a 1931 documentary about the Frontier Nursing Service, which brought healthcare to women in rural Appalachia by horseback. Alongside her cinematic constructions, Gschwandtner presents an archival video and text project focused on her mother, who obtained an illegal abortion before the 1973 passage of Roe v. Wade.