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Lost, Lost, Lost
Intoxicating, moving, brilliant entre into bohemain NY by one of experimental cinema's giants.
Loose Ends, Cartoon Le Mousse, Fever Dream 7, Kristallnacht
I taught these films for years. Amazing proto-feminist experimental film
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).
Living With A Legacy (Teens With HIV)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Living Proof
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Lives of the Performers
Dub for research for Women of Vision acquired from distributor. I taped over a video with a box label reading: Riverside Art-4, Fall 97, Jacob Lind, which led to some initial confusion when the Brooklyn College Librarians and I were trying to make…
Like a Prayer
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.
Lavendar Limelight; Couple in The Cage; (The) Perfect Film
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…
Ladies & Gentlemen, Gilda Made Easy, and Fugitive Love
I used these for teaching, no idea where or how I got them. But at the time, they were very hip interventions into queer and feminist filmmaking.Ladies & Gentlemen [00:00 - 02:56] Created by Laura LarsonGilda Made Easy [03:10 - 07:25] Created by…
Known/Unknown
Carolee was one of the subjects of Women of Vision. She gave this and other tapes of her film and video work to me for B-roll. I recently re-interviewed her when she had a major retrospective in NYC at PS1. I went to her house upstate and had a…
Keep your laws off my body
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…
Kecia: Words to Live By; Pediatric Aids: A Time of Crisis
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Joan Does Dynasty
Dub for teaching. I taught with this video early on. An important intervention in feminist media analysis and art video.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, Pt.1
Dub of VHS filmed from 16mm print projected on a wall. I taught this film frequently in feminist film classes.
It Is What It Is
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made for GMHC's Living with AIDS show, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto.
In Search of Our Fathers
Gift from filmmaker; I met him working on an activist media project on diversity and identity in the 1990s.
In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff and Number Our Days
I taught these films often in feminist documentary as well as in a course on ethnographic film and autobiography. Myerhoff's self-reflexive, community-situated documentary-making has long been a model for me. I learned about her work from my mentor,…
I, A Man
Illegal dub used only for teaching.
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…
I Stare at You and Dream
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on my documentary and book, Women of Vision.
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…
How to Have a Sex Party
Acquired for research for my doctoral dissertation, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.
Hope for A New Tomorrow: Families with AIDS, The Third Decade
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Homosexuality: One Child's Point of View
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…
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…
Homecoming
Gift from filmmaker. Acquired for teaching and research and because I wrote a review letter for her.
HIV TV
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 AIDS TV.
History and Memory
A film I taught with and still do because of Tajima's amazing mix of documentary, fiction, history, art, and feminism.
Hear Me Out
Gift from Gina Lamb, director of REACH LA at the time. Don't believe I ever watched this.
He Left Me His Strength
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.
Hard to Get: AIDS in the Workplace
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." 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…
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People; Flag
Dub for teaching. I used these films often in my first years teaching feminist and women's film. Maybe Women Make Movies or the artists sent them to me for research for Women of Vision.
From the Other Side
Purchased for teaching. I'm a fan.
Framing the Panthers; Counterterror
Two great videos shared with me by my friend, the activist video artists, Annie Goldson and Chris Bratton.
Focus on Women; Words to Live By; Seize Control of the FDA
Compilation of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV." DIVA TV, an activist colleactive working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video that complimented my own efforts, which were…
Finding Your Way: A Guide to Your Case in Family Court
The first video I was paid to make in a summer internship during graduate school at the Department of Juvenile Justice. I had very few skills, but they were happy with the video. It was edited at the foundational NYC community-video center, DCTV,…
Fighting for Our Lives
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Father
Hugarian film; a gift from my hungarian Father.
Fact is Stranger than Fiction
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this invaluable several-boxed collection from Video Databank which is currently unavailable.
Excited, Angry, Active, Vocal (Women out Loud)
Made with a feminist activist video collective of my students at Swarthmore College. We were interested in what seems the perennial problem: why young women do not identify as "feminist" and why they should!
Everything in Between
Gift from filmmaker. Fatimah is a friend and colleage and like me, a hyphonate PhD/filmmaker. We shared work and screened each others' films on many occasions.
Everyday Echo Street and Dressing Up
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on Women of Vision. She gave me these dubs to use as B-roll for my documentary.
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.
Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018."This spectacular David and Goliath story unfolds on the streets of New York, as the first action of the Women’s Committee in…
DIVA TV Dub: (1-4)
Compilation tape acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. DIVA TV, an activist collective working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video. James Wentzy took over this project and made hundreds…
Demon Lover
A gift from the filmmaker.
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.
Craig Baldwin Compilation: Tribulation 99; 0 No Coronado!; Una Historia
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
Compilation: A Part of Me; Sacred Lies/Civil Truths
Compilation of works acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV" 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…
Compilation: A New Tradition; Safer Sex Counseling and Condom Talk
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, Hillary Mushkin, a peer at the time of their production, has reentered my orbits, now…
Compilation: "A Place of Rage"; "Illusions"
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.