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United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
This tape was most likely given to me by its makers Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, most likely when they came to Pitzer College, where I was teaching at the time, to screen it. I have collaborated with them often, and they have collaborated together…
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…
He Left Me His Strength
Documents the AIDS education work of Mildred Pearson, a middle-aged Black woman and mother 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.
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…
Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement [trailer]
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…
Homosexuality: One Child's Point of View
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski was a community video artist and activist. She uses inexpensive camcorder video technology to respond to the needs of those who matter to her. Jahanara Zzaman is her daughter. In her work at GMHC in New York City,…
Sex Workers Take Back the Night
I think this tape was referenced by my students who were working with Carol Leigh, and some of it is in the composite tape she gave me years before, digitized and used in this collection. The student work in collaboration with Carol Leigh and other…
Safe Sex Slut [Compilation of videos by Scarlot Harlot]
Carol is a longtime collaborator and friend. She was a subject of my Women of Vision, and we included her in Compulsive Practice (2016).
AIDS in the Barrio
Acquired for Alexandra Juhasz's doctoral dissertation, which then became her book entitled "AIDS TV." Although initially digitized for Alex's Fall 2018 VHS Archives class, her Spring 2020 VHS Archives class has found particular interest in this…
We Care: A Video for Care Providers of People Affected by AIDS
My doctoral research project. A community-based video made by and for urban women of color in a video support group. I wrote AIDS TV about this project and its relation to AIDS representation at that point in history.
Are You With Me?
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." 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…
Women and Children Last
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. This is a short from what would become an early feature film (Heart of the Matter) made about women and AIDS by my…
Women And AIDS
I made three tapes for the Gay Men's Health Crisis Media Department, 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…
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.Students since have really loved this piece given its overt queer and lesbian sexuality. We have had a hard time tracking down…
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. More of her work is…
Without You, I'm Nothing
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.
The Woman's Film
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…
Diaries, notes, and sketches
Intoxicating, moving, brilliant entre into bohemain NY by one of experimental cinema's giants. I love a diary film; the East Village; this film's pacing and dreamy focus; its slowness. I watched part of the film on 16mm one day with Minohla Dargis,…
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. However, when I was editing my newest video, "Please Hold," in March 2024 as part of their amazing Film/Video…
She Don't Fade/The Ride Pt. 1/ Absolutely Fabulous + OJ Chase
This is a crazy montage of a VHS tape. I seemed to have taped "The Ride Part 1" over the tail end of a bad dub of Cheryl Dunye's "She Don't Fade." I taught this series for many years as a strong representation of the possibilities for…
The Ride Pt. 2 (Chicago, Philadelphia New Orleans)
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.
The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blache
I believe this dub was a gift to me from another professor to be used for research on my documentary and book, "Women of Vision." Blache was a successful woman director during the silent cinema.Many of my dearest colleagues work in feminist early…
One Way or Another (De Cierta Manera)
I love to 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 and feminist and radical filmmaker within Third and Cuban cinema.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, Pts. 1 and 2
Dub of VHS filmed from 16mm print projected on a wall. I taught this film frequently in feminist film classes. It never stops giving: ideas about watching, time, and female's agency as actor, director, viewer, and "homemaker."
In Search of Our Fathers
Gift from filmmaker; I met him working on an activist media project on diversity and identity in the 1990s called "Isms" I do believe.
When We Were Kings
Video used for teaching race in documentary.
Sing, O Barren Woman
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.
My Life with FD: Samantha Myers on Nick News (with Linda Ellerbee)
A conversation for kids about Familial Dysautonomia. Gift from filmmaker. Samantha Ginsburg was the daughter of my friend and colleague, Faye Ginsburg, who gave me the video to teach with. Both agreed it would promote Sam's activist agenda if it was…
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…
Struggle: The Fight for Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley
"Someone gave this to me to teach with, I'm not sure I ever did, and know little about it. At Pitzer College, I was a strong champion for both Ethnic Studies and Affirmative Action." as told to collection archivist, Brianna Jones, on our initial…
Hear Me Out
Gift from Gina Lamb, director of REACH LA at the time. Don't believe I ever watched this. It highlights the voices of queer of color youth during a period in CA history when they felt directly targetted.
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…
Shulie
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, "F is For Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing" (University of Minnesota…
The Politics of Fur
Gift from filmmaker, for research and teaching.
Jarocho Elegua
Gift from artist. The band's front-woman, Martha Gonzalez, is former colleague at the Claremont Colleces, and the music video is by my friend and fellow videomaker, Fatimah Tobing Rony. We are all feminist artist/scholars.
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. Barbara Myerhoff's self-reflexive, community-situated documentary-making has long been a model for me. I learned about her work from my…
Showdown in Seattle: 5 Days that Shook the WTO
Gift from filmmaker. Joan is a fellow activist from LA. The box says "FABULOUS FORESTS: Cameroon/Indonesia Part One" on the top. My guess is that she recorded over the original tape to give me this dub. When I digitized it at the Brooklyn College…
I Stare at You and Dream
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on my documentary and book, Women of Vision.
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. I am a fan of her work. She began making video with the LA Women's Building and has continued, creating an impressive oeuvre of…
Starring Rosa Furr And Other Queer Tales
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
Swallow
Gift from filmmaker. I think I wrote a letter of evaluation for Elisabeth at one point and may have acquired many of her films for this reason. Many of our core interests align: feminism, reenactment, women's liberation. Elisabeth wrote an important…
Angel in the Attic
A gift from the filmmaker. I received tapes like this over the years to teach, or write about, or program because of my research interests.
The Fancy
Gift from filmmaker. She is a friend and colleage and also wrote an essay for my collection "F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing," co-edited with Jesse Lerner (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) about her compelling reenactment…
Homecoming: Sometimes I Am Haunted by Memories of Red Dirt and Clay
Gift from filmmaker. Acquired for teaching and research and because I wrote a promotion review letter for her.
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…
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.
Children Will Listen
Gift from filmmaker. I believe I acquired many of Charlene's films when I wrote an evaluation letter for her. I also knew her from Philly when I was making "The Watermelon Woman." She acted in some of the photos for Cheryl Dunye and Zoe Leonard's Fae…
Voting in the District: Fine Cut
Gift from filmmaker. I believe I acquired many of Charlene's films when I wrote a letter of evaulation for her as a fellow academic. I also knew her socially from Philly when I was making The Watermelon Woman with Cheryl Dunye.Made for Voting in…
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 my film and book, Women of Vision.
Breaking the Bank
Gift from filmmaker. For research and teaching.