Can you name at least three female artists?Not many people can, according to filmmaker and artist Lynn Hershman Leeson. And she sees that as a big problem.In her slow-moving documentary ‘Women Art Revolution' she revisits the US art history, starting in the 1970s, when there were almost no visible female artists.Through a series of old film and interview clips, women painters, sculptors and photographers say they often felt alone in their craft and believed they had to work harder than men to get noticed.While informative, the film felt at times like a university class in feminism, with rock songs roaring in the background.Tedious at times to sit through, the film picks up when a group of radical artists, called the “Guerrilla Girls”, resort to wild (yet funny) tactics to get their voices heard and works displayed in the mainstream.During the 1970s women were not allowed to take part in many exhibitions some of which were male-only and started protesting and picketing outside shows.They also used nudity and the painting of female body parts through 1979 works like The Dinner Party which US congressmen of the time called ‘weird sexual art' and ‘pornography'.Art became about pushing boundaries and exploring male-female roles. Artists used their craft to highlight issues like racism, rape and the treatment of women in the home and office.They used the media to protest the fact that women earned only a small fragment of what male artists did.And women eventually became curators to change the power structure that created inequities in the first place.At the end of the film artists advocate for more females (like Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Miranda July) to be displayed in history books. They also argue that the contributions of female artists should be taught to upcoming art students.“History is fragile, it clings to the most obvious evidence that remains, patched together like a quilt and represents only a noncell of the DNA of an international experience, most of which is not included,” said Hershman Leeson.She argues that much of women's contributions to visual art have been left out, but a new generation of women artists now have a dialogue, a support and a legacy.There is still a long way to go, says one young artist, but every woman's fame, every woman's success is all our successs.Tickets are available at www.bdatix.bm, All Wrapped Up Home-Washington Mall, The Money Shop on Dundonald Street and Fabulous Fashions at Heron Bay Plaza. Tickets are also available by calling 232-2255. You can view a trailer of the film at www.bermudadocs.com.