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Writing Desire
Gift from the filmmaker. We went to the Whitney Independent Studio together in the 1980s and I brought her to Pitzer in the early 2000s to show her work. I follow her current work on immigration and the environment.
Like a Prayer
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Made by DIVA TV and starring Ray Navarro as Jesus.
Voices from the Front
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Made by my friends and compatriots in the AIDS activist video collective, Testing the Limits, many of who were in the Whitney ISP program before me. I learned so much…
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. One of the central pieces of AIDS activist video that forefronts women's activism with a strong critique of media…
PWA Power: Life After Diagnosis
Made by my friends and colleagues at GMHC for their Living with AIDS cable television show.
Bebashi/Amfar Dub; Keep Your Laws off My Body
This is composite tape of 2 videos acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. It was digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. I like that these projects are aligned on one tape. Both mix the private and the…
History and Memory: (for Akiko and Takashige); Scar; Smoke and Ghosts: Three Poems and more [Through the Lens 5 Compilation]
A film I taught with and still do because of Tajiri's amazing mix of documentary, fiction, history, art, and feminism. It always moves students to understand the necessity of experimental approaches to political history. It seems to be recorded from…
A Place of Rage; Illusions
Two films I taught with for years by African American woman filmmakers. Julie Dash went on to make the seminal Daughter of the Dust." "Illusions" is an early feminist short and always a great way to think about the place and exclusions of Black women…
Framing the Panthers; Counterterror: North of Ireland
Two great videos shared with me by my friend, the activist video artists, Annie Goldson and Chris Bratton. Note: From minute 06:11 to the end (31:16) the recording is corrupted. This offers the viewer the opportunity to listen to the audio (which…
Video Remains
An experimental video made from the real-time video that I shot in 1991 on his request, with my best friend, James Robert Lamb, as he was in the later stages of living with AIDS and discussing his legacy. For the documentary, I also interview fellow…
A Part of Me and Sacred Lies/Civil Truths
Works acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV" by friends and colleagues in the AIDS activist video movement. Sacred Lies/Civil Truths is by filmmakers Cyrille Phipps and Catherine Saalfield. The film is a…
Positive
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Simple Courage: An Historical Portrait in the Age of AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Silence=Death
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Fast Trip, Long Drop
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Gregg is a friend and colleague and fellow AIDS activist videomaker whose work has been formative to my thinking and teaching. This work, what I undertood to be the first…
A New Tradition; Safer Sex Counseling; Condom Talk [compilation]
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…
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!
Work Your Body: Options for People Who are HIV-Positive
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made for GMHC under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto. A great deal of important AIDS activist and educational video work was done there. Gregg Bordowitz, Alisa…
Fighting for Our Lives: Women and AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Native Americans Two Spirits & HIV
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Thinking About Death
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV, made for GMHC Living with AIDS Show, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto and directed by Gregg Bordowitz.
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,…
AIDS is About Secrets
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.…
Lavender Limelight; The Couple in The Cage; (The) Perfect Film
Compilation of dubs for teaching. Lavender Limelight is a documentary about queer film history. The 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…
Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the story of race movies
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. There is no sound on the tape so we didn't digitize it.A Tribute to Pearl…
Black Panther
Dub used for teaching
Making Sun-dried Red Peppers
Gift from fellow professor interested in fake docs and Korean and women's cinema.
Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema
Dub for research for Women of Vision acquired from a fellow professor.
Black or White; Color Adjustments
Dub for teaching. Marlon's work was critical for my teaching on race and racism in media. In those days, I also loved to teach Black or White by Michael Jackson ... when it first came out. Both works made arguments about the mutability of race.…
Rabbit in The Moon
Dub for teaching and research.
Murder of Fred Hampton
dub used only for teaching
Love Makes A Family: Lesbians and Gay Families in the Religious Society of Friends
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
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 would 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 (Duke University…
Ballot Measure 9
Gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
Anatomy of a Springroll
gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
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…
Women with a Past
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this collection.
From the Other Side
Purchased for teaching. I'm a fan.
A Minor Altercation; Politics of Intimacy; and some Star Trek
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…
What You Take for Granted
Gift from filmmaker. Michelle is a friend and colleague and was one of the subjects of my documentary Women of Vision, she gave me copies of her work to use as b-roll.
Breaking the Bank
Gift from filmmaker. For research and teaching.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…