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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…
A WAVE Taster
Made as part of the WAVE project: clips from the various excercises we did to learn how to make video, and learn more about AIDS and each other. I write about the process of making our work together, in an AIDS support group at the Brooklyn AIDS…
Mildred Pearson: When You Love A Person
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.A portrait of a mother taking care of her son who has been diagnosed with AIDS. Voiceover interview recorded on May 19th, 1988 at the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force in honor of…
Caring Sequences [Compilation]
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Made by my friend and colleague, Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski for GMHC's Living with AIDS Show. I continued to work with Juanita, and included her in the Day With(out)…
A Test For The Nation: Women, Children, Families, AIDS
One of three documentaries I made for GMHC's "Living with AIDS" cable tv show. All three exhibit a sustained commitment to an "intersectional" approach to understanding and representing the AIDS crisis when considering the experiences of women. This…
Naming Prairie
My work: a short video introducing the themes and families who would be the subject of my feature on feminist queer families, including my own, Dear Gabe. The short premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. It is about the Jewish babynaming…
The Second Epidemic
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Gifted for me for research on my doctoral dissertation on AIDS activist video by friends and fellow activists Amber Hollibaugh and Alisa Lebow.An informative documentary on…
Rabbit in The Moon
Dub for teaching and research.
One Small Step
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.Set in South Carolina on the eve of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon walk, One Small Step is a dramatic comedy about a rambunctious 8-year-old tomboy, Ernestine “Teen” Miller. Taught by her parents that she can be…
Demon Lover
A gift from the filmmaker.
Hubby/Wifey
Gift from filmmaker. I collaborate often with Todd and his husband, P. David Ebersole, prolific queer filmmakers, writers, directos and producers. Todd and I self-distributed this film with my "Dear Gabe," both works on queer family. Hubby/Wifey is a…
Love Makes A Family: Lesbians and Gay Families in the Religious Society of Friends
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
Our House
Gift from filmmaker. Meema participated in a videomaking workshop that my partner at the time, Cheryl Dunye, taught in the late 80s, and that I also participated in, at Film/Video Arts in NYC. This is an early documentary that played on PBS about…
Treyf
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"…
Anatomy of a Springroll
gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
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.
Mother's Mink
Gift from filmmaker. Carol was a friend and collaborator who I first met making AIDS activist video. She was also a subject of my documentary Women of Vision. Students love learning about her large oeuvre connecting sex work, feminism, AIDS 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…
I Stare at You and Dream
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on my documentary and book, Women of Vision.
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…
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.