This is a rare and unique 1970 ICA London Midge Mackenzie ME TARZAN YOU JANE film Women Talking UK Feminist poster. It features the iconic Margaret Rose "Midge" MacKenzie and various artists, with a medium size and original 1st edition print. The poster is a must-have for collectors of art and feminist memorabilia, with its striking depiction of women and their role in society. The year of production is 1970, making it a valuable piece of history. This is a perfect addition to any art collection or a great gift for a feminist enthusiast. (AI).

For offer a 1970 ICA London Poster 'Me Tarzan you Jane' Exhibition/Film Premiere of 'Women Talking' which is a James Meller Design. This exhibit is described as 'Mixed-Media' Examination of Women's role in Society'. The Nudity mixed with a Futurism is Artful if not inspired by the Feminist 'Ban/Burn the Bra' credo. A Rare English Poster!

Margaret Rose "Midge" MacKenzie, (D. 2004) was a London-born Feminist writer and filmmaker who first become known for producing Robert Joffrey's multimedia ballet Astarte with the Joffrey Ballet, and Women Talking, a documentary with interviews of Kate Millett, Betty Friedan and other leading figures in the US Women's Liberation movement.

James Meller was one of the 8 founding members of Foster Associates in 1967. He was also a graphic designer who worked extensively for the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. While a student at Oxford he had a group show at the New Vision Gallery with Tim Wallis, George Coral and Raymond Wilson. Granta the Oxford student magazine had contributions by a number of the Independent Group and their associates, notably John McHale and Rayner Banham.

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Size: 20" x 30" inches.

Condition: Very Good. See Fotos.


ME TARZAN YOU JANE (1970).

Down the aisle of the ICA cinema one Friday evening last month bumped and ground a busty beehived girl called Deena Martin. Wearing shimmy Mae West finery and lurex bra and pants, she wove in and out of a bewildered audience thrusting the most alluring parts of her anatomy into the faces of the crowd. Mounting the stage, she go-go'ed in strobes, peeled down to a G-string, smiled and said thank you and disappeared behind the cinema screen.

This sexy lady was a part, a provocative and integral part, of Midge Mackenzie's ME TARZAN YOU JANE, a mixed-media investigation of women' roles today. The centerpiece of the program was the British premier of Midge's film WOMEN TALKING, a 70-minute documentary of interviews with women, both British and American, who have come to a new consciousness of their situations

"I've got a cunt and you can have it if you let me in some of your trips”, says the first interviewee. "The most challenging thing in my life was when I was asked to decorate the cake for the consecration of Richard Whelan," says another. ME TARZAN YOU JANE certainly proved challenging to its audience. On the first night at the ICA, the discussion following the programme went on till midnight. By the second night, word had got around about Miss Deena Martin. While the lights were low during her act, three young women crept from their seats, picked a virgin white ICA cinema wall, and aerosolized slogans: POP-PORN WITH YOUR ICA MOVIES. INSTITUTE OF CLITORAL ALIENATION. "A good slogan", said a man in the following discussion, "why don't you paint it up on the walls of the women's magazine publishers?"

The two first screenings of ME TARZAN YOU JANE generated such intensity of interest and involvement that I've decided to run the programme for three weeks twice nightly at the ICA this month. Fundamentally, the evening is an attempt to use the arts of cinema live performance and media to provoke the audience, both men and women, into a greater awareness and a stronger expression of this awareness.

Midge Mackenzie, 29 years old, beautiful, husky-voiced and Irish, is now shrew. Ten years in the film business with partner comrade Frank Cvitanovich, pioneer of mixed-media ballet in New York with Astarte (which made a TIME magazine cover) and most recently director of the memorable Anti-Apartheid freedom-theatre and music concert at the Lyceum, Midge Mackenzie feels that HE TARZAN JANE is a climactic point in her work.

"The thing is, when a Woman comes into a room, she must confront the conditioned images that men have of all women. No man has to bear such a burden. When a woman enters this, or any situation she bears the racial identity of all women on her. When you talk to any man about the issues raised by the women's liberation movement his reaction will be conditioned by several factors, primarily the degree to which he is a liberated human being, and also the way he relates to women. If he is trapped in the domination and sybmission game epitomised by ME TARZAN YOU JANE his response is a predictable personal regression. Once you alter the Jane part of the equation, you've inevitably got to redefine Tarzan."