AIDS in the Barrio
AIDS, Activism, Lesbian, Women Filmmakers, LatinX, Philadelphia
<p>Acquired for Alexandra Juhasz's doctoral dissertation, which then became her book entitled "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." Although initially digitized for Alex's Fall 2018 VHS Archives class, her Spring 2020 VHS Archives class has found particular interest in this film's depiction of drug use and addiction.</p>
<p>My graduate students in the VHS Archives class at Brooklyn College in 2018 did a great project about this early intervention into community-based, community-specific AIDS educational materials. Frances Negron [Documentary Filmmaker & Professor at Columbia University] is a friend and colleague, at the time we were collaborating on a project revisiting "Women of Vision," my book and documentary about feminist media history, in which she was a subject.</p>
<p>Members of the Latino community in Philadelphia discuss the impact of the AIDS crisis on their lives in hopes of preventing others from acquiring the deadly disease. People Living with AIDS (PLWAs) honestly describe their own high-risk behavior - drug use and sexual promiscuity - which resulted in their infection with HIV. Family members reveal the heavy emotional and financial tolls the disease has taken on their lives. Participants also debate cultural factors, including machismo and traditional relations between men and women, that are ancillary factors in the epidemic. A minister/activist places the AIDS crisis within broader socio-economic contexts: unemployment, poverty, language barriers, and homophobia. He stresses the need for tolerance in the community as well as the use of condoms to halt the spread of the disease.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.wmm.com/filmmaker/Frances+Negr%C3%B3n-Muntaner/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Frances Negron-Muntaner</a></p>
<p>Peter Biella</p>
<a href="http://store.cinemaguild.com/nontheatrical/product/1189.html">New York: Cinema Guild</a><br /><br />http://store.cinemaguild.com/nontheatrical/product/1189.html
1985
Police Tapes; Video in the Villages; Video Cannibalism
documentary, NYC, video, police
Compilation tape of documentary and ethnographic film for teaching. The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a New York City police precinct in the South Bronx. Video in the Villages organizes indigenous workshops in training and production. Founded in 1987, the project began with the introduction of video in indigenous communities that produced documentaries. In Video Cannibalism, The Video in the Villages project introduces video among the Enauênê Nauê Indians, a group still isolated in the north of Mato Grosso.
Alan and Susan Raymond; Vincent Carelli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxT9hEL5l-8
https://store.der.org/video-in-the-villages-presents-itself-p295.aspx
1976; 2002; 2009
Video in the Villages
A Test For The Nation: Women, Children, Families, AIDS
Places AIDS into framework of reproductive rights and women’s health care.
<span>One of three documentaries I made for GMHC's "Living with AIDS" cable tv show. All three exhibit a sustained commitment to an "intersectional" approach to understanding and representing the AIDS crisis when considering the experiences of women.</span>
Alexandra Juhasz
Produced for G.M.H.C.’s “Living With AIDS” cable show.
1988
VHS
Documentary
Compilation: A New Tradition; Safer Sex Counseling and Condom Talk
AIDS, Sex Education, Documentary, Women Filmmakers
<span>Three tapes made for paid gigs for the feminist Center for Family Life Education, a leader in youth education about sexuality. Quite recently, the project manager, <a href="http://www.hillarymushkin.com/">Hillary Mushkin</a>, a peer at the time of their production, has reentered my orbits, now through her important work in public health.<br /></span>
Alexandra Juhasz
Center for Family Life Education
1988
Tom Burr
Debra Sarlin
R. Sabitable
English
Educational
Bodies, Birth & Babies: TEACHING HEALTHY FOUNDATIONS
I made this video for a paid gig for Planned Parenthood, Bergen County, NJ, <span>for the feminist Center for Family Life Education. Getting paid for the work on this video allowed me to go to Europe for the first time.</span>
Alexandra Juhasz
Planned Parenthood, Bergen County, NJ.
1992
Hillary Mushkin
RELEASED: Five Short Videos about Women and Prison
woman filmmaker, documentary, radical, activist. Collective
A project I produced with other filmmakers and activists in a collective focusing on the challenges and possibilities of representation of abolition, women, and prison.
Alexandra Juhasz
2001; 2001
Carol Leigh and Duran Ruiz, Irwin Swirnoff and Cheryl Dunye, Tamika Miller and Syvain White, Tracy Mostovoy, Joseph Saito, Enid Baxter Blader, narrated by Angela Davis
Prostitutes, Risk and AIDS
Made with Jean Carlomusto for the Gay Men's Health Crisis' "Living with AIDS" show, a weekly cable show on public access. Starring collaborator Carol Leigh. Carol was a subject of my book and documentary, Women of Vision.
Alexandra Juhasz for GMHC
1988
Alexandra Juhasz
Hard to Get: AIDS in the Workplace
AIDS activist, video, documentary, woman filmmaker
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="With%20the%20December%2010th,%201989%20demonstration%20by%20ACT%20UP%20and%20WHAM!%20(Women's%20Health%20Action%20and%20Mobilization)%20at%20St.%20Patrick's%20Cathedral%20as%20its%20focus,%20Like%20a%20Prayer%20is%20more%20than%20a%20simple%20documentation%20of%20that%20event.%20This%20show%20explores%20the%20many%20issues%20that%20were%20cause%20for%20the%20action%20-%20as%20well%20as%20those%20resulting%20from%20it%20-%20while%20charting%20the%20course%20of%20events%20both%20inside%20and%20outside%20the%20church.%20Like%20a%20Prayer%20is%20composed%20of%20several%20sections%20including%20an%20analysis%20of%20the%20demonstration%20as%20it%20was%20portrayed%20in%20the%20mainstream%20media%20and%20reactions%20of%20Catholics%20who%20participated.%20Like%20a%20Prayer%20is%20a%20show%20of%20force%20and%20pride;%20a%20challenge%20to%20the%20Church%20and%20its%20policy%20on%20AIDS%20and%20reproductive%20rights.%20Produced%20by%20DIVA-TV%20in%20collaboration%20with%20WHAM!%20%20Features%20cameo%20of%20Ray%20Navarro%20as%20Jesus." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Made by my friend and collaborator, Alisa Lebow for the New York Anti-Discrimination AIDS Task Force where she worked with Amber Hollibaugh and others. They made many great video there which I wrote about in my Cineaste piece: <a href="https://actupny.org/diva/cineaste.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">So Many Alternatives.</a></span>
Alisa Lebow
1990
New York Anti-Discrimination Task Force
A Day Without Art
AIDS Activism
From television show "The Eleventh Hour - Art and AIDS," acquired as research for my dissertation and book, AIDS TV. Digitized for my course, VHS Archives.
Andrew Carl Wilk-Director
Thomas Harris-Producer
Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement
AIDS Activism
This documentary examines critical junctures in the battle for access to HIV treatment as the poorest and most marginalized individuals confront larger powers, including governments, corporate bodies and a multinational drug industry that is motivated by profit. The fight for AIDS drugs is taking place in tandem with a growing anti-globalization movement; the latter provides a backdrop for examining AIDS through a lens of poverty, socioeconomic injustice and human rights. (Outcast Films)
Anne-christine d'Adesky, Shanti Avirgan
and Ann T. Rossetti
<a href="http://www.outcast-films.com/films/ppp/index.html" title="Outcast Films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Outcast Films</a>
2005
Film
Sex Workers Take Back the Night
San Francisco's Take Back the Night (December 1990)
Scarlot Harlot attends San Francisco's Take Back the Night (December 1990), a march in remembrance of the fourteen female college students murdered in the previous year's Montreal Massacre. Clashes and controversy emerge between sex workers and anti-porn feminists about sex, violence and men with an emphasis on the perspectives of strippers and sexual rights activists. An excellent feminist discussion piece. W.O.W. Cafe (N.Y., N.Y.) VIDEO WITNESSES FESTIVAL OF NEW JOURNALISM, HALLWALLS (Buffalo, N.Y.), LOS ANGELES LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL (28 min.- 1991)
Carol Leigh ("Scarlet Harlot")
1990
Safe Sex Slut
Safer sex education
Carol is a longtime collaborator and friend. She was a subject of my Women of Vision, and we included her in Compulsive Practice (2016). Safe sex national anthem music video by sex worker activist, comedian, and artist, Scarlot Harlot.
Featured at THE 5th INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE, PARADISIO, Amsterdam, DEEP DISH SATELLITE TV, NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, N.Y. as part of VIDEO AGAINST AIDS by VIDEO DATA BANK.
For more information about Scarlot Harlot visit: http://www.unrepentantwhore.com
Unrepentant Whore: Collected Work of Scarlot Harlot can be purchased at Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0867195843/penet/103-8623556-5870212
About the artist:
Scarlot Harlot, unrepentant whore, activist, and artist, is a brazen, brainy hooker. Since the late 1970s, Harlot (AKA Carol Leigh) has written, performed and produced work in a variety of genres on women's issues and her experiences in the sex industry. This collection of articles and essays documents over twenty years of prostitute radicalism from a leader of the sex workers' rights movement. Heady, political, and sexy, these autobiographical missives defend sex, queer rights and reproductive freedom and attack fundamentalist feminism, economic injustice and discrimination. Leigh's work explores a historic cultural and artistic underground from an irreverent point of view, challenging conventions of sexuality, aesthetics, technology and prevailing social mores.
Carol Leigh (Scarlot Harlot)
1987
Red Red Red
AIDS Activism, AIDS Criminalization
Red Red Red is a personal and political film about a law in Iowa that severely limits the social liberties of people with HIV. Eclectic in the presentation of its rhetoric, the film also considers broader questions like the contemporary state of queer politics, the dimensions of an identity for HIV positive persons and how it is that a Iowan convenience store chain came to called Kum N' Go. David worked with me as a fellow AIDS scholar, and now collaborates with me and others in the collective, <a href="http://hivdoula.work/">What Would an HIV Doula Do</a>?
David Oscar Harvey
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/rg/VIDEO_PLAY/LINK//video/wab/vi2632097049/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IMDB</a>
2008
Like a Prayer
AIDS, activist video, documentary, collective
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.<br /><br /><span><br /><br /></span>
DIVA TV
1991
English
Lucille
experimental, feminist, video art, performance
Gift from filmmaker. Enid was a frequent collaborator as an editor and artist, and one of my favorite video artists of the 1990s. She edited my documentaries, Dear Gabe and Video Remains. She continues making art that links to the sciences focusing on outdoor social-emotional learning.<br /><br /><br /><span></span>
Enid Baxter (Blader) Ryce
2003
VHS
video art
Bad Bosses Go To Hell
I produced this short narrative film for my friend and colleague, Erin Cramer, who I met in the Whitney ISP program.<br /><br />"Bad Bosses" begins at 00:09:36.
Erin Cramer
Killer Films
1997
Amy Sedaris
Becky Ann Baker
David Rakoff
VHS
Short film
HIV TV
Safer sex and self-empowerment advise by PWAs making video in a support-group at Woodhull Hospital, Brooklyn.
My second attempt at an AIDS video support group, sponsored by the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, and working with Sharon Penceal at an AIDS support group at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. I write about the strengths and failures of this video in <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.
HIV Support Group
1990
Sharon Penceal
How to Have a Sex Party
Safe Sex, AIDS Activism
Acquired for research for my doctoral dissertation, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.
House O Chicks
1991
Dorrie Lane
Homosexuality: One Child's Point of View
One child's understanding of homosexuality.
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski is a community video artist and activist.
She uses inexpensive camcorder video technology to respond to the needs of those who matter to her. In her work at GMHC in New York City, Mohammed Szczepanski makes educational videos for and about the AIDS community. In her personal video work, she looks to her friends and neighbors to find stories that are not typically represented in the media.
Jahanara Mohammed
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski
Mother Daughter Productions
1990
Love is you,
Love is me,
Love is everyone,
Love is not hate,
But love is friends loving friends,
Love is brotherhood,
Love is women loving women,
Love is men loving men,
Love is women and men loving each other,
Love is NOT hate.”
– Jazzy's poem in Homosexuality: One Child’s Point Of View, 1993
Women And AIDS
AIDS Activism
I made three tapes for the Gay Men's Health Crisis, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto. A great deal of important AIDS activist and educational video work was done there. This is one of the first videos made about this issue. It was digitized for the course VHS Archives.
Jean Carlomusto
Alexandra Juhasz
Gay Men's Health Crisis Media Department Production
1988
written: Alexandra Juhasz
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Sex in an Epidemic
AIDS Activism
In "Sex in an Epidemic," Jean Carlomusto, a doyenne of AIDS activist video, creates a haunting and elegiac history of US safer sex (video) activism and education. Taking up (and using clips from) Carlomusto’s earliest activist work for GMHC’s groundbreaking cable access show, “Living With AIDS, ” Carlomusto re-animates the lost AIDS activist community of the 1980s and 1990s by editing their accounts and actions into a vibrant testimony to one community's radical efforts at life-saving education. "Sex in an Epidemic" is a moving testament to the power of remembering, representing, learning, and activism.
Jean Carlomusto
<a href="http://outcast-films.com/films/sie/index.html" title="Outcast Films" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Outcast Films</a>
2010
<p style="color:#ff0000;">ACT UP NY highlights: from "United in Anger-History of Act Up"</p>
AIDS Activism, Documentary, ACT UP
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is an inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts the efforts of ACT UP as it battles corporate greed, social indifference, and government neglect. <a href="http://www.unitedinanger.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(United in Anger Website)</a>
Jim Hubbard
Sarah Schulman
<a href="http://www.unitedinanger.com/" title="United in Anger Website" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">United in Anger-History of Act Up</a>
2012
Copyright Jim Hubbard, Amazon Video
United in Anger-History of Act Up
Film
English
Compilation: A Part of Me; Sacred Lies/Civil Truths
AIDS, PWA, Activism, Documentary, Woman Filmmaker, Latin/X
<span>Compilation of works acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>" by friends and colleagues in the AIDS activist video movement. A Part of Me is a portrait of for GMHC's Living with AIDS Show, 1993. Featuring Alida "Lilly" Gonzalez. Sacred Lies/Civil Truths is by filmmakers Cyrille Phipps and Catherine Saalfield. The film is a document of the religious right's blatant and hateful attacks against the lesbian and gay community. <br /></span>
Juanita Mohammed Sczapanski
Alisa Lebow
Catherine Saalfield
Suzanne Wright
Cyrille Phipps
1993
Lavendar Limelight; Couple in The Cage; (The) Perfect Film
African-American, Latin/x, experimental video, performance; experimental, montage, gay and lesbian, documentary, lesbian,
Compilation of dubs for teaching. Lavendar Limelight is a documentary about queer film histsory. Couple in a cage is by Coco Fusco, a friend and colleague who supported me in the beginning of my career by helping me get a large grant for We Care when she worked at the NY State Council on the Humanities. <span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Perfect Film (1986), a found footage film of eyewitness accounts of the assassination of Malcolm X, is a perfect allegory for Jacobs' notion of "the movies that make up our minds, are our minds in large part". </span>
Marc Mauceri, Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez- Peña, Ken Jacobs
1998/ 1993/1986
He Left Me His Strength
AIDS Activism
Documents the AIDS Education work of Mildred Pearson, a middle-aged black woman who cared for her gay son when he was dying of AIDS. Produced by the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, where I later collaborated on the WAVE Project.
Merle Jawitz, Sherry Busbee, Joanne Basinger, Sheila Ward
Downtown Community Television Center Video Production Workshop
April Productions
1989
CC
Video
English
video
1980s-1990s
Silverlake Life: The View From Here
documentary, gay, AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. I continue to teach and learn from this film, a compelling use of the home video camera, and self-reflexive gaze to understand AIDS, love, and death.
Peter Friedman and Tom Joslin.
POV, PBS
1993
Compilation: "A Place of Rage"; "Illusions"
Woman Filmmaker, Documentary, Radical, Activism, African-American, Lesbian
<span>Two films I taught with for years by African American woman filmmakers. Julie Dash went on to make Daughter of the Dust. A Place of Rage is a celebration of African American women.</span>
Pratibha Parmar
Julie Dash
1991
1983
Sing, O Barren Woman
feminist, video art, family, woman director, performance,
Gift from filmmaker Susan Mogul. She was one of the subjects of my documentary, Women of Vision, and I also brought her often to Pitzer college to screen her tapes. She became a colleague and friend.
Susan Mogul
2001
VHS
Experimental Film
Documentary
Voices from the Front
AIDS, activist video, documentary, collective, woman filmmaker, feminist
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." Made by my friends and compatriots in the AIDS activist video collective, Testing the Limits, many of who were in the Whitney ISP program before me.</span><br /><span><br /></span>
Testing the Limits
Sandra Elgear
Robyn Hutt
David Meieran
San Francisco, CA: Frameline
1992
Writing Desire
woman filmmaker, experimental, documentary, feminist, sexuality
<span>Gift from the filmmaker. We went to the Whitney Indepdenent Studio together in the 1980s and I brought her to Pitzer in the early 2000s to show her work. I follow her current work on immigration and the environment.<br /></span>
Ursula Biemann
2000
Video Essay
We Care: A Video for Care Providers of People Affected by AIDS
AIDS Activism
My doctoral research project. A community-based video made by and for urban women of color in a video support group. I wrote <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a> about this project and its relation to AIDS representation at that point in history.
WAVE (The Women’s AIDS VIDEO Enterprise), 1990
1990
Marcia Edwards, Alexandra Juhasz, Aida Matta, Juanita Mohammed, Sharon Penceal, Glenda Smith, Carmen Velasquez
CC
<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=J3OzH4XKscwC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=Marcia+Edwards,+Self-Portraits,+(WAVE,+1990&source=bl&ots=vD9Ww1IZKT&sig=hsqFESGjNrnp7J76nOFyjf9Wz5w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit15CYqKLVAhWD2D4KHQDZC1MQ6AEIQDAI#v=onepage&q=We%20Care&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video By Alexandra Juhasz, Catherine Gund p. 208; 219</a>
15
32 minutes
Keep your laws off my body
AIDS Activism, Body, Human - Law and legislation - United States. Sex and law - United States. Short films
A wordless comment on legislation affecting the human body, including pornography, obscenity, prostitution, and sodomy laws, as well as Roe vs. Wade, Webster, and the Helms Act. Some film footage shot in New York City at the AIDS ACT UP demonstration at City Hall, March 28, 1989.
Zoe Leonard
Catherine Saalfield
The Kitchen
1990
VHS Videocassette
Are You With Me?
AIDS Activism
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Made by AIDS Films as part of a significant early effort to get high-production films about AIDS and minority communities to a larger American public.
Women and Children Last
Safe Sex, AIDS Activism
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. The first feature film made about women and AIDS by my friend and colleague, Amber Hollibaugh.
S.I.N. Productions
1990
Without You, I'm Nothing
queer, whiteness, racism, feminist, performance, woman director
<span>I taught this film for many years. It felt utterly cutting edge to me, primarily for its no-holds-barred attack on racism from Sandra Bernhard's debased position of whiteness. It's cheeky queerness also felt utterly new in its time.</span><br /><span></span>
1990
Sandra Bernhard
VHS
English
comedy film
The Woman's Film
feminist, activist, racism, documentary, collective, consciousness raising, woman director
<span>This is a critical contribution to the history of feminist documentary, as it is situated within activist film. It links the women's movement to contemporaneous organizing and thinking about class and race, and understands access to filmmaking and control of the image as part of this struggle. </span>
1971
Lost, Lost, Lost
experimental, diary, NYC, documentary
Intoxicating, moving, brilliant entre into bohemain NY by one of experimental cinema's giants.<br /><span><br /></span>
<a href="https://mubi.com/films/lost-lost-lost" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mubi: Lost Lost Lost</a>
1976
English
Sambizanga
feminist, revolutionary, Latin/x, Third Cinema, woman director
This dub was a gift to me from another Professor at Pitzer so that I could use it to teach women's and feminist film. Not sure I ever did.<br /><br /><div class="section">
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1973
The Ride #1/ Absolutely Fabulous
youth, activist, collective, video, community-based
I taught this series for many years as a strong representation of the possibilities for community-based, collective, activist youth video. It seems to also have some of the TV show Absolutely Fabulous recorded from TV on to the same tape.
1994
The Ride 2 (Chicago, Philadelphia New Orleans)
youth, activist, collective, video, community-based
This is a dub from TV. I taught this series for many years as a strong representation of the possibilities for community-based, collective, activist youth video.
1994
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blache
woman director, early cinema, documentary
<span>I believe this dub was a gift to me from another professor to be used for research on my documentary and book, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/films-videos/women-of-vision-18-histories-in-feminist-film-and-video/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women of Vision</a>." She was a successful woman director during the silence period.</span>
1995
VHS
Documentary
One Way or Another (De Cierta Manera)
feminist, Latin/x, Cuban, revolutionary, Third Cinema, fake documentary, woman director
I teach this film in feminist documentary because of its groudbreaking integration of documetary and fiction as well as for Gomez's important role as a woman filmmaker within Third cinema.<br /><span></span>
1974
VHS
Spanish
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, Pt.1
feminist, woman director, experimental
Dub of VHS filmed from 16mm print projected on a wall. I taught this film frequently in feminist film classes.<br /><br /><br /><span></span>
1975
French
In Search of Our Fathers
African-American, racism, masculinity, documentary
Gift from filmmaker; I met him working on an activist media project on diversity and identity in the 1990s.<br /><br /><br /><span></span>
1992
When We Were Kings
African-American, racism, masculinity, sports, documentary
Video used for teaching race in documentary.
1996
George Foreman
Muhammed Ali
VHS
English
Documentary
Samantha Myers and FD on Nick News (with Linda Ellerbee)
youth, activist, video, community-based, documentary, disability, woman director
Gift from filmmaker. Sam was the daughter of my friend and colleague, Faye Ginsburg, who gave me the video to teach with. Both agreed it would promote her activist agenda to be digitized and put online. Samantha Ginsburg Myers, 33, passed away peacefully on September 25, 2022, from cardiac arrest. Sam was an activist on behalf of those with Familial Dysautonomia (FD), her rare Jewish degenerative genetic condition.
2000; 2000
Struggle: The Fight for Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley
university, ethnic studies, documentary, Asian-American, woman director, racism
Someone gave this to me to teach with, I'm not sure I ever did, and know little about it. At Pitzer, I was a strong champion for both Ethnic Studies and Affirmative Action.
1993
Hear Me Out
activist, queer, documentary,
Gift from Gina Lamb, director of REACH LA at the time. Don't believe I ever watched this.
2003
Missing Relations
African-American, lesbian, documentary, family, woman director
<span>Gift from filmmaker. Yvonne is my longtime friend and collaborator. I teach her films frequently in courses on feminist, queer, and documentary film. She was one of the subjects for my project, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/women-of-vision/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women of Vision.</a> Later yet we co-edited the scholarly anthology <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/sisters-in-the-life" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">"Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Filmmaking"</a> (Duke 2018).</span>
1994
Shulie
feminist, woman filmmaker, experimental documentary,
<span>Gift from filmmaker. Elisabeth is a friend, colleague, and queer feminist experimental compatriot. She wrote about this film for the book I co-edited with Jesse Lerner, "<a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/f-is-for-phony" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">F is For Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing</a>" (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). </span>
1997