Main Competition
24.04.02
Catwoman vs. The White House
by Scott Calonico , U.S.A., 2022, 12’
The newly discovered audio and video tell the full story of Eartha Kitt’s meeting with the U.S. President and First Lady in 1968. Mixing television clips of Kitt as a Catwoman character and as herself among Washington’s wives, she calls on her superpowers to send a strong message about the Vietnam War. It is a necessary reminder of how society treats black women who speak and how history treats heroines.