Everyday Echo Street and Dressing Up

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. 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 feminist art. Dressing Up is a seminal work of early feminist video. Along with other feminist art critics, we organized a show and catalogue about the important legacy of the Women's Building for feminist art and education: Doin' It In Public.

1993/1973

Filmed in Susan Mogul’s Los Angeles multi-ethnic working class neighborhood, Highland Park, Everyday Echo Street: A Summer Diary, is an insider’s view of how home and neighborhood are constructed in everyday relations. Composed of conversational and anecdotal portraits of neighbors and merchants, Susan ruminates about the past and the present, as she looks out her apartment window. Struggling to arrive at a new definition of “home,” she ponders loss, middle age, and living alone. - VDB

“(Dressing Up is one of) Susan Mogul’s very funny video stories, in which she proceeds from disrobed to robed, reminiscing about the history of each item of clothing.” —Lucy Lippard, “From the Center”, Feminist Essays on Women’s Art on susanmogul.com

32 mins; 7:49 mins

Susan Mogul

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