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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…
Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Features stellar safer sex education as activism and community building. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Cheryl and I worked with Ellen to revisit the…
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…
Safe is Desire
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." I wrote about this video again as part of my collaboration with Theodore Kerr as we revisit early AIDS video to think about what it can tell us about mediamaking and…
Clips
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." I wrote about this video again as part of my collaboration with Theodore Kerr as we revisit early AIDS video to think about what it can tell us about mediamaking and…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
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…
A Crack in the Tube
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this collection at Pitzer College over many years and in a variety of Media Studies classes from Feminist Documentary to Video Art. It's an imprtant and large compliation documenting the history of feminist…
Variety is the Spice of Life: What Does She Want [program 5]
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this invaluable multi-boxed collection from Video Databank which is currently unavailable.
Fact is Stranger than Fiction
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this invaluable several-boxed collection from Video Databank which is currently unavailable.
Murder & Murder (first 30 mins)
Acquired as research for Women of Vision 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, intellectual, and experimental…
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…
Angel in the Attic
A gift from the filmmaker. I received tapes like this over the years to teach, or write about, or program because of my research interests.
The Politics of Fur
Gift from filmmaker, for research and teaching.
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…
AIDS in the Barrio
Acquired for Alexandra Juhasz's doctoral dissertation, which then became her book entitled "AIDS TV." Although initially digitized for Alex's Fall 2018 VHS Archives class, her Spring 2020 VHS Archives class has found particular interest in this…