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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.
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.
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,…
(In)visible Women
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Ellen Spiro is a friend and fellow AIDS video activist videomaker and documentarian. I interview her in my documentary "Video Remains" (2005) as well as many other…
AIDS is About Secrets
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV."
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…
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
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…
Come Back, Africa
Gift from fellow professor for teaching.
Murder of Fred Hampton
dub used only for teaching
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.
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!
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).
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…
Compilation: "Politics of Intimacy", "A Minor Altercation"
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…
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.
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.
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 the Fae Richards Archive.
Homecoming
Gift from filmmaker. Acquired for teaching and research and because I wrote a review letter for her.
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…
When We Were Kings
Video used for teaching race in documentary.
In Search of Our Fathers
Gift from filmmaker; I met him working on an activist media project on diversity and identity in the 1990s.