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Sex Workers Take Back the Night
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…
Sex in an Epidemic
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…
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,…
Seriously Fresh
For research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. My friend and colleague and fellow AIDS video activist, Tom Kalin, worked as a producer on the films made by AIDS Films. I write about him and them in an early essay on AIDS video,…
Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options
Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options was made within a public program for young mothers. Activist music videos were made with Alexandra Juhasz, Brian Goldfarb, and the youth group for young mothers trying to finish high school.The songs…
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…
Sambizanga
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.
Samantha Myers and FD on Nick News (with Linda Ellerbee)
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…
Safer Sister; Reunion; (An)other Love Story; The Forgotten People: Latinas and AIDS Shadows
Composite reel of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Dubs of tapes I made to review. Not sure what the last one is.
Safer and Sexier: A College Students' Guide to Safer Sex
I made this video as an extracurricular activist project with students at Swarthmore College. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. It's graphic sexual imagery, and de-coupling of sex and love, led to some protests by Christians, but…
Safe Sex Slut
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.
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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…
Saddle Sores
Gift from filmmaker. Vanalyne is a friend and colleague. She was a subject of my documentary Women of Vision and would have given this to me to use for b-roll and teaching.
Roam Sweet Home: Fine Cut
Gift from filmmaker. Ellen is a friend and collaborator. I helped a little on this film by holding the puppet/prostheses that stood in for her dog who had died before the shoot was over. Recently I produced a short documentary for Ellen and…
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…
RELEASED: Five Short Videos about Women and Prison
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.
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…
Red Red Red
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…
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,…
Rabbit in The Moon
Dub for teaching and research.
Quetzal, "Jarocho Elegua"
Gift from artist. The band's front-woman, Martha Gonzalez, is a friend and colleague, and the music video is by my friend and fellow videomaker, Fatimah.
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,…
PWA Power
Made by my friends and colleagues at GMHC.
Pull My Daisy
Used for teaching a class on American indie cinema.
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.
Positive
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Police Tapes; Video in the Villages; Video Cannibalism
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.…
Playing it Safe (intro V. Bertinelli): Protections: What Every Woman Needs to Know
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." One of those mainstream productions that were not partiuclarly helpful, inspiring AIDS activist video about and by women.
Plagued Series Compile (Episodes 3 & 4)
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.
Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement
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…
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…
Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Features stellar safer sex education as activism and community building. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Cheryl and I worked with Ellen to revisit the…
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.
One Way or Another (De Cierta Manera)
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.
One Small Step
gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
Native Americans Two Spirits & HIV
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Naming Prairie
My work: a short video introducing the themes and families who would be the subject of my feature on feminist queer families, including my own, Dear Gabe. The short premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. It is about the Jewish babynaming…
Murder of Fred Hampton
dub used only for teaching
Murder & Murder
Acquired as research for Women of Vision from the distributors. Yvonne was my teacher at the Whitney Independent Studio Program and a role model for a life as a feminist queer artist, as well as for her conceptual inspiration.
Mother's Mink
Gift from filmmaker. Carol is a friend and collaborator who I first met making AIDS activist video. She was also a subject of my documentary Women of Vision. Students love learning about her large oeuvre connecting sex work, feminism, AIDS and…
Missing Relations
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, Women of Vision. Later yet we co-edited the scholarly…
Missing Latina
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching this video by and about Latina girls and the power of media literacy.
Mildred Pearson: When You Love A Person
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.A portrait of a mother taking care of her son who has been diagnosed with AIDS. Voiceover interview recorded on May 19th, 1988 at the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force in honor of…
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.
Memories from the Department of Amnesia; Art of Memory
Two works of video art that I taught.
Making Sun-dried Red Peppers
Gift from fellow professor interested in fake docs and Korean and women's cinema.
Lucille
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…
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…
Love Makes A Family: Lesbians and Gay Families in the Religious Society of Friends
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.