Writing Desire
woman filmmaker, experimental, documentary, feminist, sexuality
<span>Gift from the filmmaker. We went to the Whitney Indepdenent 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.<br /></span>
Ursula Biemann
2000
Video Essay
Voices from the Front
AIDS, activist video, documentary, collective, woman filmmaker, feminist
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." 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.</span><br /><span><br /></span>
Testing the Limits
Sandra Elgear
Robyn Hutt
David Meieran
San Francisco, CA: Frameline
1992
Safer Sister; Reunion; (An)other Love Story; The Forgotten People: Latinas and AIDS Shadows
AIDS, women filmmakers, community based video, African American, feminist
Composite reel of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Dubs of tapes I made to review. Not sure what the last one is.
1992; 1993; 1993
WAVE: Self Portraits
AIDS, women fimmakers, community based video, African American, feminist
Short videos made as part of the WAVE project <span>which worked in an AIDS video collective to tell stories of urban women of color impacted by AIDS</span>. The project is the subject of the final auto-ethnographic chapter of my disseration, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.
1990
A Test For The Nation: Women, Children, Families, AIDS
Places AIDS into framework of reproductive rights and women’s health care.
<span>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.</span>
Alexandra Juhasz
Produced for G.M.H.C.’s “Living With AIDS” cable show.
1988
VHS
Documentary
Excited, Angry, Active, Vocal (Women out Loud)
feminist, consciousness raising, documentary, woman filmmaker, sexuality, collective
<span>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!</span>
1992
Naming Prairie
woman filmmaker, queer, feminist, family, Jewish
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 ceremony for Prairie, the daugher of my friend Hali and Margie.
2002
The Second Epidemic
AIDS, woman filmmaker, feminist, family, sexuality
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Amber was my friend and colleague and fellow AIDS activist videomaker. We were working on representing women and AIDS early in the life of the epidemic within a feminist and lesbian activist community.</span>
1987
Love Tapes/Weather Diary
feminist, video, woman filmmaker; gay, video art, sexuality
<span>Dubs for teaching. I teach these videos all the time. Clarke's because she invents a powerful and early method to let people express themselves on video, Kuchar because his diary films are beautiful, funny, smart, poignant, and edited with amazing skill. Wendy Clarke is Shirley Clarke's daughter!</span>
1981; 1989
One Small Step
lesbian, feminist, family,
gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
1999
Our House
woman filmmaker, queer, feminist, family
<span>Gift from filmmaker. Meema participated in a videomaking workshop that Cheryl 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 kids of gay and lesbian parents. </span>
2000
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
feminist, queer, trans, African-American, activist, video, AIDS
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.
1991; 1992
Treyf
feminist, lesbian, Jewish, experimental documentary, family,
<span>Gift from filmmaker. Alisa is a longtime friend and collaborator who I met making AIDS activist video. We co-authored the <a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781119685661?gC=098f6bcd4&gclid=CjwKCAiAlrSPBhBaEiwAuLSDUIlPxjc2LDeyvpIVnC88bMZmXMqJsRgDTmitp4diQ9D3FNH7U5aTDxoC-9UQAvD_BwE">Blackwell Anthology on Contemporary Documentary</a> together many years later, and recently co-penned the manifesto "<a href="https://worldrecordsjournal.org/beyond-story-comments/">Beyond Story</a>" 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.<br /><br />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. <br /></span>
1998
Perceptual Landscapes: Films of Barbara Hammer, Volume 3
feminist, lesbian, African-American, documentary, women's history
<span>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 to best represent lesbian experience, sexuality, identity, and politics. She was a mentor and a bon vivant and an activist. I interviewed her about her late in life retrospective at the Leslie Lohman Gallery in 2017 for the Brooklyn Rail, and then commemerated her, Carollee Schnemann and Agnes Varda after their deaths.</span>
1999
Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @100
African-American, documentary, activism, woman director, feminist, racism, biography
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).
1999
Sex Fish
experimental, feminist, video art, porn
<span><span>I was in this porno with Cheryl made by our friend Shu Lea Cheang. Because I was just starting in my first job as a professor, I asked to not be identifable. We screened it as part of the inter-generational programming, </span></span><a href="https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/collective-visions-the-past-present-and-future-of-feminist-media">Collective Visions: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Media</a><span><span></span></span><span>. While a little embarassing, I know it's beautiful. And I interviewed Shu Lea on her request when I helped to bring her new film, a feature art porn set in a time after HIV, Fliud-0, to NYC. <br /><br />(the dub is recorded on a tape after some of a program with behind the scenes footage from the making of the film "Alien")<br /></span>
1993
Screaming Queens: The Riot @ Compton Cafeteria
feminist, queer, trans, queer history, documentary, woman filmmaker
<span>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 introducing the organizing power and history of transpeople outside of NY and before Stonewall.</span>
2005
Resisting Paradise
feminist, experimental documentary, history of art
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.
2003
The Potluck and The Passion; The Body Beautiful
feminist, queer, video art, experimental documentary, African-American
<span>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.</span>
1991
1993;
A Crack in the Tube
Feminist, Video Art, Woman Filmmaker, Lesbian, Experimental
<span>Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this collection at Pitzer College. It's a large compliation of the history of feminist video art.</span>
1987
VHS
English
Video art
Variety is the Spice of Life
feminist, video art, woman filmmaker, lesbian
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this invaluable multi-boxed collection from Video Databank which is currently unavailable.
1987
Fact is Stranger than Fiction
feminist, video art, woman filmmaker, lesbian
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this invaluable several-boxed collection from Video Databank which is currently unavailable.
1987
Women with a Past
feminist, woman filmmaker, documentary, film history, performance, interview, women's history,
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this collection.
1987
Ladies & Gentlemen, Gilda Made Easy, and Fugitive Love
feminist, woman filmmaker, experimental documentary, sexuality,
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.<br /><br /><span>Ladies & Gentlemen [00:00 - 02:56] Created by Laura Larson</span><br /><span>Gilda Made Easy [03:10 - 07:25] Created by Laura Larson</span><br /><span>Fugitive Love [08:55 - 22:05] Created by Tamara Jenkins & Produced by Boyfriend Productions</span>
mid-1990s; 1991
Murder & Murder
feminist, woman filmmaker, experimental, sexuality, performance, lesbian
Acquired as research for <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/films-videos/women-of-vision-18-histories-in-feminist-film-and-video" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women of Vision</a> from the distributors. Yvonne was my teacher at the Whitney Independent Studio Program and a role model for a life as a feminist queer artist, as well as for her conceptual inspiration.
1996
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
Saddle Sores
feminist, woman filmmaker, experimental documentary, sexuality,
<span>Gift from filmmaker. Vanalyne is a friend and colleague. She was a subject of my documentary <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/films-videos/women-of-vision-18-histories-in-feminist-film-and-video/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women of Vision</a> and would have given this to me to use for b-roll and teaching.</span>
1999
Art for Teachers of Children
feminist, woman filmmaker, experimental documentary, sexuality,
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.
1995
VHS
Experimental documentary
From the Other Side
feminist, woman filmmaker, immigration, California, documentary
Purchased for teaching. I'm a fan.
2012
Known/Unknown
feminist, woman filmmaker, experimental
<span>Carolee was one of the subjects of <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/women-of-vision/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women of Vision</a>. She gave this and other tapes of her film and video work to me for B-roll. I recently re-interviewed her when she had a major retrospective in NYC at PS1. I went to her house upstate and had a memorable day: interview, meal, and she gave me three pairs of shoes (we have the same shoe size!) which I love to walk in. I published an homage to her, Barbara Hammer, and Agnes Varda after their deaths in <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/617414/for-feminist-artists-recognition-often-comes-too-late/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hyperallegic</a>, and also in the <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> special issue.</span>
1996
Mother's Mink
feminist, family, video art, queer, sexualit, woman filmmaker
Gift from filmmaker. Carol is a friend and collaborator who I first met making AIDS activist video. She was also a subject of my documentary <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/films-videos/women-of-vision-18-histories-in-feminist-film-and-video/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women of Vision</a>. Students love learning about her large oeuvre connecting sex work, feminism, AIDS and activism.
1994
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
Lives of the Performers
feminist, woman filmmaker, perforance, experimental
Dub for research for Women of Vision acquired from distributor. I taped over a video with a box label reading: Riverside Art-4, Fall 97, Jacob Lind, which led to some initial confusion when the Brooklyn College Librarians and I were trying to make sense of this tape.
1972
Joan Does Dynasty
feminist, video art, media analysis, woman filmmaker
<span>Dub for teaching. I taught with this video early on. An important intervention in feminist media analysis and art video.</span>
1993
Documentary Short
Missing Latina
Latin/x, feminist, activist, woman filmmaker, youth, media analysis, community-based
<span>Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching this video by and about Latina girls and the power of media literacy.</span>
1992
Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People; Flag
African-American, documentary, activism, woman director, feminist, racism
<span>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.</span>
1985; 1989
Everything in Between
feminist, Asian-American, queer, woman filmmaker,
<span>Gift from filmmaker. Fatimah is a friend and colleage and like me, a hyphonate PhD/filmmaker. We shared work and screened each others' films on many occasions.</span>
2001
Starring Rosa Furr And Other Queer Tales
feminist, queer, experimental, woman filmmaker
Gift from filmmaker for teaching and research.
2000
Everyday Echo Street and Dressing Up
feminist, documentary, Los Angeles, family, art video, woman filmmaker
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on Women of Vision. She gave me these dubs to use as B-roll for my documentary.
1993/1973
I Stare at You and Dream
feminist, documentary, Los Angeles, family, art video, woman filmmaker
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on my documentary and book, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/women-of-vision/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women of Vision.</a>
1997
In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff and Number Our Days
feminist, Jewish, ethnographic, documentary, woman filmmaker
<span>I taught these films often in feminist documentary as well as in a course on ethnographic film and autobiography. Myerhoff's self-reflexive, community-situated documentary-making has long been a model for me. I learned about her work from my mentor, teacher, and friend, Faye Ginsburg.</span>
1985
VHS
Documentary
Documentary Short
Quetzal, "Jarocho Elegua"
Latin/x, performance, feminist, activist, woman filmmaker
<span>Gift from artist. The band's front-woman, Martha Gonzalez, is a friend and colleague, and the music video is by my friend and fellow videomaker, Fatimah.</span>
2002
The Politics of Fur
feminist, lesbian, woman filmmaker
Gift from filmmaker, for research and teaching.
2002
Shulie
feminist, woman filmmaker, experimental documentary,
<span>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, "<a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/f-is-for-phony" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">F is For Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing</a>" (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). </span>
1997
Lucille
experimental, feminist, video art, performance
Gift from filmmaker. Enid was a frequent collaborator as an editor and artist, and one of my favorite video artists of the 1990s. She edited my documentaries, Dear Gabe and Video Remains. She continues making art that links to the sciences focusing on outdoor social-emotional learning.<br /><br /><br /><span></span>
Enid Baxter (Blader) Ryce
2003
VHS
video art
Sing, O Barren Woman
feminist, video art, family, woman director, performance,
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.
Susan Mogul
2001
VHS
Experimental Film
Documentary
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, Pt.1
feminist, woman director, experimental
Dub of VHS filmed from 16mm print projected on a wall. I taught this film frequently in feminist film classes.<br /><br /><br /><span></span>
1975
French
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
Sambizanga
feminist, revolutionary, Latin/x, Third Cinema, woman director
This dub was a gift to me from another Professor at Pitzer so that I could use it to teach women's and feminist film. Not sure I ever did.<br /><br /><div class="section">
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1973
The Woman's Film
feminist, activist, racism, documentary, collective, consciousness raising, woman director
<span>This is a critical contribution to the history of feminist documentary, as it is situated within activist film. It links the women's movement to contemporaneous organizing and thinking about class and race, and understands access to filmmaking and control of the image as part of this struggle. </span>
1971