mumok cinema
Kate Millett: Three Lives
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 7 pm

Three Lives (1971), the only completed film by Kate Millett, was made in a moment of transition. Her debut book, Sexual Politics (1970), had made her famous overnight as a spokesperson for the feminist movement. With Three Lives, she attempted to redirect the spotlight to ordinary women and to redefine herself as an artist. This screening of the film will be introduced by Sam Huber, who will consider it in relation to Millett’s sculpture Terminal Piece (1972). Both works emerged from her experiences in New York’s avant-garde art world, and both expressed her desire, on the heels of Sexual Politics, “to bring change into being.” 

Program
Kate Millett, Three Lives, 1971, 70 min
Introduction by Sam Huber

Sam Huber is a senior editor at The Yale Review, a lecturer of English at Yale, and a critic whose essays have appeared in Bookforum, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. They are writing a biography of Kate Millett.

The program takes place in the context of the exhibition Terminal Piece.