A Film about A Women Who…
Feminist, Woman Filmmaker, Experimental Documentary, Sexuality, Performance
<span>Acquired as research for Women of Vision from the distributors. I also used this film for classes in women's and feminist films. Yvonne was my teacher at the Whitney Program in the 1980s. She can be seen in the 4+ hours of research footage I shot for this project in NYC in 1990, along with 40 other media feminists, <a href="https://womxn-of-vision.netlify.app/item/research-meeting-1994/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">now online</a> as part of the larger re-visit to this project <a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article-abstract/5/4/1/109521/Editors-IntroductionInformed-Historical-Reveries?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">published</a> by Feminist Media Histories in 2019.<br /><br /></span>"<span>Rainer's landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliche and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger." <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071497/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(IMDB)</a></span>
<a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article-abstract/5/4/1/109521/Editors-IntroductionInformed-Historical-Reveries?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Feminist Media Histories</a>
1974
VHS
Experimental documentary
Compilation: "Politics of Intimacy", "A Minor Altercation"
Feminist, Consciousness-raising, Documentary, Woman Filmmaker, Sexuality, African-American
Dub for teaching. Amazing resource about consciousness-raising and its relation to video. Powerful to this day in its forthright conversation about women's sexuality. Minor Altercation is also on this tape. One of the first narrative films directed by an African American woman. This dub was either for teaching or research for Women of Vision.
1974
1977
VHS
English
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