What You Take for Granted

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Title

What You Take for Granted

Subject

documentary, woman woman filmmaker, labor, performance, experimental documentary

Description

Gift from filmmaker. Michelle is a friend and colleague and was one of the subjects of my documentary Women of Vision, she gave me copies of her work to use as b-roll.

Date

1983

Abstract

Drama-documentary about six women who have 'made it' in male-dominated work areas, as truck driver, doctor, cablesplicer, sculptor, carpenter and philosophy professor. Uses fictionalised interviews based on interviews conducted by the filmmaker with over forty women doing all types of non-traditional jobs. A narrative involving the doctor and truck driver characters is intercut with interviews. (BFI)

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Director

Michell Citron

Files

whatyoutakefor_granted.png

Citation

“What You Take for Granted,” VHS Activism Archive , accessed April 20, 2024, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/700.

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