https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/browse?tags=experimental+documentary&output=atom2024-03-29T10:55:18-04:00Omekahttps://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/737Gift from filmmaker. Alisa is a longtime friend and collaborator who I met making AIDS activist video. We co-authored the Blackwell Anthology on Contemporary Documentary together many years later, and recently co-penned the manifesto "Beyond Story" for World Records. I still teach with this documentary because of its playful mixture of approaches to identity in both form and content. It still teaches great! Cynthia Madansky recently desgined the cover of my book of poems, My Phone Lies to Me.
TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With personal narration, real and imagined educational films, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky examine the Jewish identity of their upbringings and its impact on their lives. Incisive cultural critics, astute, poignant, and poetic—never cynical—they weave their way from New York to Jerusalem in pursuit of a progressive, secular Jewish identity that draws from their childhood reminiscences as much as from their contemporary queer lives. As referenced in Alisa Lebow’s book First Person Jewish, TREYF is iconoclastic and intelligent, humorous and poignant, a personal journey from kibbutz summers to coming out, from keeping kosher to “Bat Mitzvahs.” A reflection on culture, community, and individual desire, this witty film follows the filmmakers as they discover what they thought was most profoundly “treyf” about their worldviews still has roots in Jewish history. ]]>2022-01-30T18:43:29-05:00
Gift from filmmaker. Alisa is a longtime friend and collaborator who I met making AIDS activist video. We co-authored the Blackwell Anthology on Contemporary Documentary together many years later, and recently co-penned the manifesto "Beyond Story" for World Records. I still teach with this documentary because of its playful mixture of approaches to identity in both form and content. It still teaches great! Cynthia Madansky recently desgined the cover of my book of poems, My Phone Lies to Me.
TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With personal narration, real and imagined educational films, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky examine the Jewish identity of their upbringings and its impact on their lives. Incisive cultural critics, astute, poignant, and poetic—never cynical—they weave their way from New York to Jerusalem in pursuit of a progressive, secular Jewish identity that draws from their childhood reminiscences as much as from their contemporary queer lives. As referenced in Alisa Lebow’s book First Person Jewish, TREYF is iconoclastic and intelligent, humorous and poignant, a personal journey from kibbutz summers to coming out, from keeping kosher to “Bat Mitzvahs.” A reflection on culture, community, and individual desire, this witty film follows the filmmakers as they discover what they thought was most profoundly “treyf” about their worldviews still has roots in Jewish history.
feminist, experimental documentary, history of art
Description
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 film and book, Women of Vision, a history of feminist film and media, and gave me tapes to use as b-roll.
Coda: In Love, Anger, and Loss: Barbara Hammer and Carolee Schneemann, Feminist Media Histories, Volume 5, Issue 4
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Barbara Hammer
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]]>https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/717Gift 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 Cheryl gave me of Potluck, for teaching.]]>2022-02-04T15:44:49-05:00
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Title
The Potluck and The Passion; The Body Beautiful
Subject
feminist, queer, video art, experimental documentary, African-American
Description
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 Cheryl gave me of Potluck, for teaching.
Date
1991
1993;
Abstract
The Potluck and the Passion: To celebrate their one year anniversary, a black lesbian couple have a potluck dinner party. Each partner invites several of her own friends, hoping variety will make for a stimulating evening. (Mubi)
The Body Beautiful: This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. (Criterion)
The Fourth Wall: Women of Vision Revisted, Cheryl Dunye, Karina Hadoyan, Toni Adeyemi, Feminist Media Histories, 4:5
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Cheryl Dunye
Ngozi Onwurah
]]>https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/712 Ladies & Gentlemen [00:00 - 02:56] Created by Laura Larson Gilda Made Easy [03:10 - 07:25] Created by Laura Larson Fugitive Love [08:55 - 22:05] Created by Tamara Jenkins & Produced by Boyfriend Productions]]>2022-01-30T18:43:29-05:00
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Title
Ladies & Gentlemen, Gilda Made Easy, and Fugitive Love
I used these for teaching, no idea where or how I got them. But at the time, they were very hip interventions into queer and feminist filmmaking.
Ladies & Gentlemen [00:00 - 02:56] Created by Laura Larson Gilda Made Easy [03:10 - 07:25] Created by Laura Larson Fugitive Love [08:55 - 22:05] Created by Tamara Jenkins & Produced by Boyfriend Productions
]]>https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/710Acquired 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, now online as part of the larger re-visit to this project published by Feminist Media Histories in 2019.
"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." (IMDB)]]>2022-01-30T18:43:29-05:00
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, now online as part of the larger re-visit to this project published by Feminist Media Histories in 2019.
"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." (IMDB)
]]>https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/709Gift 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.]]>2022-01-30T18:43:29-05:00
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.
Date
1999
Abstract
Video artist meets a handsome and enigmatic Marlboro Man; video artist gets a sexually transmitted disease. Vanalyne Green reworks the sex-education film to take a critical look at cherished stereotypes about romance, the American West, and cowboys. (MUBI)
Gift from filmmaker. I knew Jennifer in the early 90s and taught this important film at that time. The interaction between experimental filmmaking and documentary in her work is compelling.
]]>https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/700Gift 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.]]>2022-02-04T15:42:51-05:00
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.
Date
1983
Abstract
Drama-documentary about six women who have 'made it' in male-dominated work areas, as truck driver, doctor, cablesplicer, sculptor, carpenter and philosophy professor. Uses fictionalised interviews based on interviews conducted by the filmmaker with over forty women doing all types of non-traditional jobs. A narrative involving the doctor and truck driver characters is intercut with interviews. (BFI)
Informed Historical Reveries, Angela Agauyo and Alexandra Juhasz, editors, Feminist Media Histories Vol 4 Issue 5
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Director
Michell Citron
]]>https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/681Gift 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 Press, 2006). ]]>2022-01-30T18:43:28-05:00
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 Press, 2006).