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Safe is Desire
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." I wrote about this video again as part of my collaboration with Theodore Kerr as we revisit early AIDS video to think about what it can tell us about mediamaking and…
Tags: 1993, AIDS, Debi Sundahl, lesbian, Nan Kinney, safe AIDS, Safe is Desire, safe sex, sexuality, woman filmmaker
Clips
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." I wrote about this video again as part of my collaboration with Theodore Kerr as we revisit early AIDS video to think about what it can tell us about mediamaking and…
Tags: 1989, AIDS, Clips, Debi Sundahl, lesbian, Nan Kinney, safe sex, sexuality, woman filmmaker
The Second Epidemic
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Amber was my friend and colleague and fellow AIDS activist videomaker. We were working on representing women and AIDS early in the life of the epidemic within a feminist and…
AIDS is About Secrets
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV."
Plagued Series Compilation (Epis. 1 & 2)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV from distributor.
Midnight Ramble
Pearl Bowser was one of the subjects of my book and documentary project Women of Vision. This is her documentary about race films. I used it as b-roll for the documentary.
Black Panther
Dub used for teaching
Making Sun-dried Red Peppers
Gift from fellow professor interested in fake docs and Korean and women's cinema.
Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema
Dub for research for Women of Vision acquired from a fellow professor.
Black and White; Color Adjustments
Dub for teaching. Marlon's work was critical for my teaching on race and racism in media. I also loved to teach Black and White by Michael Jackson when it came out. Both works made arguments about the mutability of race. Jackson made use of media in…
Rabbit in The Moon
Dub for teaching and research.
Come Back, Africa
Gift from fellow professor for teaching.
Love Tapes/Weather Diary
Dubs for teaching. I teach these videos all the time. Clarke's because she invents a powerful and early method to let people express themselves on video, Kuchar because his diary films are beautiful, funny, smart, poignant, and edited with amazing…
Murder of Fred Hampton
dub used only for teaching
Craig Baldwin Compilation: Tribulation 99; 0 No Coronado!; Una Historia
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
One Small Step
gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
Tags: 1999, Catherine Crouch, family, feminist, lesbian, One Small Step
Death in Venice, CA.
Gift from filmmaker. I collaborate often with Todd and his husband, David, prolific filmmakers, writers, directors and producers. P. David and I were early producers on Cheryl Dunye's HBO film, Stranger Inside.
Tags: 1994, CA., Death in Venice, gay, P. David Ebersole, queer, sexuality
Demon Lover
A gift from the filmmaker.
U.S. of Poetry
dub for teaching taken from TV airing. A great show! A PBS miniseries of poems covering the diversity of American culture.
Tags: 1995, PBS series, poetry, television, U.S. of Poetry
Hubby/Wifey
Gift from filmmaker. I collaborate often with Todd and his husband, P. David Ebersole, prolific queer filmmakers, writers, directos and producers. Todd and I self-distributed this film with my "Dear Gabe," both works on queer family. Hubby/Wifey is a…
Tags: 2005, family, Hubby/Wifey, lesbian, queer, Todd Hughes, video art
American High (Episodes. 1 & 2)
Dub for teaching given to me by I'm not sure by who. I was interested in how video was opening out into more honest stories of young people's lives. It worked well for teaching because it was raw.
Love Makes A Family: Lesbians and Gay Families in the Religious Society of Friends
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
The Last Day in November
gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
Tags: 2001, Bill Basquin, queer, The Last Day in November, trans, video art
Our House
Gift from filmmaker. Meema participated in a videomaking workshop that Cheryl taught in the late 80s, and that I also participated in, at Film/Video Arts in NYC. This is an early documentary that played on PBS about kids of gay and lesbian parents.
Tags: 2000, family, feminist, Meema Spadola, Our House, queer, woman filmmaker
The Girl
Purchased for teaching. When I first started teaching there really weren't that many films by women.
Tags: 1968, M‡rta MŽsz‡ros, The Girl, woman filmmaker
Elspeth Kydd Vol. 3 (Short Work): Drag in for Votes; Exile's Complex; Why We Fight; Faces; Drag Queen Blues; Rituals and White Lies and Suburbs of Eden
Gift from filmmaker. Elspeth was a friend and colleague who I met through activist AIDS video, and documentary studies. She died tragically in her 40s.
Treyf
Gift from filmmaker. Alisa is a longtime friend and collaborator who I met making AIDS activist video. We co-authored the Blackwell Anthology on Contemporary Documentary together many years later, and recently co-penned the manifesto "Beyond Story"…
Victor
Gift from filmmaker. Chris was a friend from Philly who worked with us on The Watermelon Woman. When I put a photo of my VHS tapes on Facebook, our mutual friend Brent Hill recognized that tape!
Tags: African-American, Christopher Daniels, date, documentary, gay, Victor
Perceptual Landscapes: Films of Barbara Hammer, Volume 3
Gift from filmmaker. Barbara is a friend and colleage. She was one of the subjects of my book and documentary on feminist film history, Women of Vision. Over a long career in filmmaking, Barbara explored many styles and theories that woud allow her…
Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @100
gift from filmmaker. Yvonne is my longtime friend and collaborator. I teach her films frequently in courses on feminist, queer, and documentary film. We co-edited Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African-American Media Making (2018).
Reel Ghetto Queer 2004: Queer Girls Shorts 2001-2003
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video compilation by and about Latina and queer girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative…
Reach L.A. Girl Tapes
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video compilation by and about Latina girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative expression,…
Tags: 2002, activist, collective, community-base, immigration, Latin/x, Reach L.A. Girl Tapes, REACH LA, video, youth
Queer Youth Nation: Parts 1 and 2
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video compilation by and about Latina girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative expression,…
I Was a Teenage Alien
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video by and about Latina girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative expression, supporting safe…
Tags: 1990, activist, collective, community-base, Gina Lamb, I Was a Teenage Alien, immigration, Latin/x, video, youth
The Attendant
Gift from filmmaker. Isaac is a friend and colleague. His work on AIDS and black queer representation has been formative to my own production and thinking. I taught this. The poster from the film was used as set decor in The Watermelon Woman.
Tags: 1993, AIDS, black, experimental, Isaac Julien, queer, sexuality, The Attendant
Sins of the Fleshapoids
Dub used only for teaching.
A Conversation with Magic, Nickelodeon
Taped from TV for teaching and research about AIDS media, for my dissertation and then my book AIDS TV.Basketball star Magic Johnson speaks to kids about living with AIDS in this Nickelodeon News Special Edition.
Sex Fish
I was in this porno with Cheryl made by our friend Shu Lea Cheang. Because I was just starting in my first job as a professor, I asked to not be identifable. We screened it as part of the inter-generational programming, Collective Visions: The Past,…
Pull My Daisy
Used for teaching a class on American indie cinema.
Tags: 1959, Alfred Leslie, experimental, NYC, performance, Pull My Daisy, Robert Frank
Ballot Measure 9
Gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
Anatomy of a Springroll
gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
Screaming Queens: The Riot @ Compton Cafeteria
Gift from filmmaker. Victor was a colleague at the Claremont Colleges. We spoke often about his developing documentary practice. Susan is a friend and colleague. The documentary makes an important intervention into queer and trans history and film by…
Resisting Paradise
Gift from filmmaker. Barbara was a friend and colleague, inspiration and radical. A lesbian experimental filmmaker, teacher, and activist, she made work for decades, as queer, lesbian, feminist, and AIDS activism transformed. She was a subject of my…
Bike Boy
Dub for teaching bought at a swap meet. The Warhol foundation controls access to all his films, so obviously, this was and is an illegal dub.
Tags: 1967, Andy Warhol, Bike Boy, experimental, gay, NYC
The Potluck and The Passion; The Body Beautiful
Gift from filmmaker. Cheryl is a long-time collaborator (we made The Watermelon Woman together). I teach her videos often. She is my ex-partner. Cheryl's work is formative in her documentary/fiction bleed. I taped Body Beautiful onto this tape that…
A Crack in the Tube
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this collection at Pitzer College. It's a large compliation of the history of feminist video art.