The Potluck and The Passion; The Body Beautiful

The Potluck and The Passion; The Body Beautiful

feminist, queer, video art, experimental documentary, African-American

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, and used them both for teaching.

One of the 18 subjects of my book and documentary, Women of Vision, she co-authored an essay "The Fourth Wall: Women of Vision Revisited," with Toni Adeyemi and Karina Hodoyán for the special issue I co-edited with Angela Aguayo, "Informed Historical Reveries," for Feminist Media Histories 5:4, 2019.

Alexandra Juhasz

1991

1993;

Autobiographical account of a mother-daughter relationship, exploring beauty standards and female sexuality. -BFI Player

The Potluck and the Passion: To celebrate their one year anniversary, a black lesbian couple have a potluck dinner party. Each partner invites several of her own friends, hoping variety will make for a stimulating evening. (Mubi)

The Body Beautiful: This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. (Criterion)

The Fourth Wall: Women of Vision Revisted, Cheryl Dunye, Karina Hadoyan, Toni Adeyemi, Feminist Media Histories, 4:5

16:58 mis; 23 mins

Cheryl Dunye

Ngozi Onwurah

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11266862&node=50137931&a=204765236

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-body-beautiful-1990-online