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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Loose Ends, Cartoon Le Mousse, Fever Dream 7, Kristallnacht
I taught these films for years. Amazing proto-feminist experimental film
Memories from the Department of Amnesia; Art of Memory
Two works of video art that I taught.
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…
Compilation of Pitzer student videos and the beginning of Bad Bosses Go To Hell!
This tape seems to hold copies of short videos made in the 1990s by students at Pitzer College and the first part of a short narrative film that I produced for my friend and colleague, Erin Cramer, who I met in the Whitney ISP program.
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…
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!
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…
Viva Eu (Long Live Me)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." This was an important intervention at the time bringing a Latina voice and perspective to American AIDS video activism.
(In)visible Women
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Ellen Spiro is a friend and fellow AIDS video activist videomaker and documentarian. She has had a stellar career as a documentarian making AIDS activist videos and…
Vida
Acquired 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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Rabbit in The Moon
Dub for teaching and research.
Media Killa; The Perfect Leader
dub used only for teaching
Demon Lover
A gift from the filmmaker.
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…
The Girl
Purchased for teaching. When I first started teaching there really weren't that many films by women. The first Hungarian film made by one!
Ballot Measure 9
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…
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.
Women with a Past
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this collection.
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.
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…
Film about A Women Who…
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…
Saddle Sores
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. Here is the interview I conducted with her for that project.She also…
Art for Teachers of Children
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.
From the Other Side
Purchased for teaching. I'm a fan.
Known Unknown
Carolee was one of the subjects of Women of Vision. 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…
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…
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…
Lives of Performers
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…
Joan Does Dynasty
Dub for teaching. I taught with this video early on as a professor and for many years. An important intervention in feminist media analysis and art video.
Missing Latina
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.