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FILM STUDIES

FILM STUDIES


AMY! AND FRIDA KAHLO AND TINA MODOTTI

By Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen

Laura Mulvey, co-written and co-directed with Peter Wollen. Mulvey came to prominence in the early 1970s with her seminal essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. One of the most widely cited and anthologized articles in the field of contemporary film theory, this groundbreaking work investigated questions of spectatorial identification and its relationship to the male gaze. With this essay and other articles, Mulvey helped establish feminist film theory as a legitimate field of study.

AMY! (1980, 30 minutes) Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Great Britain to Australia. Mulvey and Wollen's experimental documentary combines newsreel footage of the aviator's arrival, dramatic recreations of events from her life and contemporary discussions by feminist groups on the subject of heroism in this most unconventional biopic.

FRIDA KAHLO AND TINA MODOTTI (1983, 29 minutes) Originally commissioned for an international art exhibition this short film is an unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti explores the divergent themes and styles of two contemporary and radical women artists working in the upheaval of the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution.

Reviews
  • "AMY! And FRIDA KHALO AND TINA MODOTTI are fascinating and accessible hybrids of biography and critical essay written in images and sounds. They exemplify the ¡¥passionate detachment' Mulvey advocated- their modernist heroines are as texts and presented as women with whom younger feminist generations will connect. The rediscovery of these films will energize discussions of feminist film theory by illustrating the stakes of film practice." - Patricia White, Chair, Film and Media Studies, Swarthmore College

  • "A fascinating recasting of documentary film as a hybrid of performance art, home movies and animation infused by a postpunk sensibility. The films turn Mulvey's off-cited ¡¥gaze' inside out with powerful subjects¡Kwho demand active spectatorship." - Ted Barron, Senior Programmer, Harvard Film Archive

    Note
  • Ladyfest, Chicago, IL

    Item no.: GT01880227
    Format: DVD (Color, Black & White)
    Duration: 59 minutes
    Copyright: 2007
    Price: USD 295.00

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    AL'LEESSI...AN AFRICAN ACTRESS

    By Rahmatou Keita

    Zalika Souley is in her fifties. She lives with four children a two-bedroom apartment with neither electricity nor water in Niamey, the capital of Niger. But thirty years ago, she was a movie star and Africa's first professional female actress, working with such celebrated directors as Niger's Oumarou Ganda and Moustapha Alassane. Souley was once the legendary bad girl of African cinema defying directors with her compelling improvisations. Yet, despite her fame, her life was beset by difficulty. In moving and often heart-breaking interviews, Souley speaks wistfully about how audiences confused her with the women she portrayed ¡V vamps, adulteresses, prostitutes - and how, as her stardom rose abroad, she became a pariah in her own country.

    More than a simple chronicle of Souley's extraordinary career, the film is a moving homage to the heyday of Nigerien cinema in the 1960s when a cottage industry of Westerns, detective films and thrillers delighted audiences. African actors donned cowboy hats and channeled their heroes - Steve McQueen, Jimmy Stewart and Ronald Reagan. Al'leessi (meaning "a destiny" in Songhoy) encapsulates the condition of women in modern African society and the history of cinema in Niger which has all but dissolved in recent years. Equally essential for women's studies, cinema studies, African and post-colonial studies, Al'leessi is a love letter to this pioneer of Nigerien cinema and a poignant meditation on the current state of the African film industry.

    Reviews
  • Keita's archival work is splendid, as is her unobtrusive camera that was given nearly full access to Souley's private life. Several touching, unexpected music cues include a clip of Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns." - Variety

  • Recommended. - Educational Media Reviews Online

    Notes
  • Cannes Film Festival
  • Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival)
  • Black Movie Festival
  • Carthage Film Festival
  • Los Angeles Film Festival
  • Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO)
  • Pesaro Film Festival
  • Vienna International Film Festival
  • Vues d'Afrique

    Award
  • Documentary Film Festival of African Films, Ile de la Reunion, Grand Prize

    Item no.: KR01880024
    Format: DVD (Songhoy and French, Color, Black & White)
    Duration: 69 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 295.00

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    NIGHT PASSAGE

    Directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier

    Made in homage to Kenji Miyazawa's children's sci-fi classic MILKY WAY RAILROAD, NIGHT PASSAGE is the latest experimental feature from celebrated filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha and artist Jean Paul Bourdier (REASSEMBLAGE, THE FOURTH DIMENSION, A TALE OF LOVE, SHOOT FOR THE CONTENTS, SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM). This provocative digital tale tells the story of three young friends traveling for a brief moment together on the train between life and death. Their journey into and out of the land of ¡¥awakened dreams' occurs on a long ride on a night train. Ingeniously framed through the train window, filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha and artist Jean Paul Bourdier create whimsical and sensual dreamscapes, which is matched by an equally beautiful and other-worldly music score. Once again, Minh-ha shifts the way she engages with the form and the spirit of the cinema¡Xto challenge and provoke her audience.

    Reviews
  • "Trinh Minh-ha consistently challenges her audiences with each new work, constantly shifting the ways in which she critically engages with the form and spirit of cinema." - Irina Leimbacher, San Francisco Cinematheque

  • "Spectacularly shot in video¡K The netherworld between life and death is viewed as a piece of light, shadow, movement and uncertain ideas in Night Passage¡K As with Trinh's best work, when language gives way to images, [the film] takes on real force and a majestic sense of the subconscious."- Variety

  • "A tableaux-rich, transcultural essay film¡Kthis experimental narrative work continues [Trinh's] knack for consistently unsettling audiences."- Asian American International Film Festival

    Notes
  • Women in the Director's Chair, Chicago
  • Visual Communication Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
  • New York Asian American Int'l Film Festival
  • The Busan Art Biennale
  • The Shanghai Art Biennale
  • Senef Film Festival, Seoul, Korea

    Item no.: GR01880527
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 98 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 395.00

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    SUMMER OF THE SERPENT

    By Kimi Takesue

    This beautiful short drama exquisitely explores the unlikely bond that develops between two people from different worlds. Eight-year old Juliette sits at the side of the local pool waiting for another lonely summer day to pass when an unexpected pair of Japanese newcomers arrives. Fascinated by the mysterious black-clad woman and her yakuza assistant, Juliette transforms an ordinary day into an imaginative adventure, embarking on a surreal journey of discovery.

    Tender and beautifully hypnotic, Summer of the Serpent raises provocative questions about difference and desire. It also artfully explores representations of Asians on film, Asian masculinity, and cross-cultural encounters through the story of one young woman's burgeoning sexuality.

    Reviews
  • "Recommended"- Library Journal

  • "Kimi Takesue's SUMMER OF THE SERPENT is lulling, hypnotic and gorgeous. Exploring and subverting the appeal of Asiatic mystery, it beautifully evokes the steaming daydreams of summer."- Sam Adams, Philadelphia City Paper

  • "New Yorker Kimi Takesue traveled to Rotterdam with SUMMER OF THE SERPENT, a charming short about a strange encounter at a swimming pool. Keep an eye on the talented Takesue."- V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  • "The latest short from award winner Kimi Takesue is the elegantly shot, richly textured, brilliantly acted story of Juliette, a young girl with big brown eyes and a frown watching the summer pass by. Short on swimming skills she is stuck at the community pool suntanning with Mom. When a woman in black arrives with her enigmatic servant, Juliette glimpses a new world of possibility."- Vancouver International Film Festival

  • "Heralds the emergence of a major filmmaker¡Kcreates an alluring cinematic space built around the tensions and mysteries of a silent exchange of gazes, the suspense generated by the discovery of the unknown and the rhythm that springs from the editing and the imaginative use of music."- Berenice Reynaud, California Institute of the Arts

  • "Witty and winsome."- Steven Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer

  • "Incredibly evocative, thoughtful, and stimulating."- Dr. Timothy Shary, Director of Screen Studies, Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University

  • "Delightfully observant and rhythmic, rich in details that engage and provoke the viewer. A wonderful film for cross-cultural studies and youth centered discussions as rumba meets Japan."- Herman Law, City College of New York

    Notes
  • Boston Asian American Film Festival
  • Rhode Island International Film Festival
  • DC Asian Pacific Film Festival
  • Rotterdam International Film Festival
  • Vancouver International Film Festival
  • Tampere International Short Film Festival
  • Festival International de Films de Femmes, Creteil
  • Hamptons International Film Festival
  • Cleveland International Film Festival
  • Philadelphia International Film Festival
  • Brisbane International Film Festival
  • Walker Art Center, "Women with Vision"
  • Florida Film Festival
  • San Francisco Asian International Film Festival

    Award
  • Brooklyn International FF - Grand Jury Prize

    Item no.: AF01880205
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 27 minutes
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 250.00

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    HEAVEN'S CROSSROAD

    By Kimi Takesue

    Heaven's Crossroadraces an impressionistic journey through Vietnam exploring the nuances and complexities of "looking" cross-culturally. Structured in a series of observational yet stylized vignettes, this visually driven experimental documentary investigates shifting relationships of voyeurism and intimacy, while linking the observer with the observed. Takesue's mesmerizing cinematography captures sweeping country landscapes and cities in motion, provoking questions about what it means to truly see another culture.

    Heaven's Crossroad charts a singular journey yet it also explores common desires which surface through travel: the desire to be transported to another place; to communicate beyond language; the desire to arrest time and repossess a moment, a glance, a feeling, an encounter¡Xtransforming mundane events into moments of surprising beauty and an utterly new way of seeing.

    Reviews
  • "A treasure...A lyric travelogue."- Nathan Lee, New York Sun

  • "An extended mediation on the nature of sight...recalls nothing so much as the travel diary of a master poet."- Peter X. Feng, Ph.D., University of Delaware

  • "Delivers a beautiful panoply of people, places, colors, languages and sounds from contemporary nothern Vietnam...would serve well in courses in anthropology, film studies, Southeast Asian studies and other fields moving beyond the older conceits of cross-cultural communication."- Glen Mimura, Asian American Studies, University of CA, Irvine

  • "A visual and sensory feast of contrasts, of movement and stillness, travelling and homecoming...a journey to Vietnam like no other."- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Women's Studies, Syracuse University

    Notes
  • Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
  • Calgary International Film Festival
  • Mill Valley Film Festival
  • Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  • Vancouver International Film Festival
  • Locarno International Film Festival
  • Rotterdam International Film Festival

    Awards
  • Sblack Maria Film & Video Festival- Juror's Choice Award
  • Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema- Best Documentary
  • Slamdance Film Festival- Spirit of Slamdance Award

    Item no.: GL01880515
    Format: DVD (Vietnamese, Color)
    Duration: 35 minutes
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 250.00

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    SISTERS OF THE SCREEN: AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE CINEMA

    By Beti Ellerson

    Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson's engaging debut intersperses interviews with such acclaimed women directors as Assia Djebar, Safi Faye, Sarah Maldoror, Anne Mungai, Fanta Regina Nacro and Ngozi Onwurah with footage from their seminal work. With power and nuance, Ellerson also confronts the thorny question of cultural authenticity by revisiting the legendary 1991 FESPACO (Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou), in which diasporian women were asked to leave a meeting intended for African woman only. This film is both a valuable anthology and a fitting homage to the pioneers and new talents of African cinema.

    Reviews
  • "A superb instructional tool¡Kof great use for teachers of African Cinema, African History, African Politics and also Women's Studies."- Dr. Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of History/African Studies, Central Connecticut State University

  • "Fascinating¡Kan excellent addition to collections on film and women's and African studies."- Danna Bell-Russel, Library Journal

  • "An incredible reclamation and exploration of African women's lives and histories by African women filmmakers."
    Jacqueline Bobo
    Women's Studies and Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara

    Notes
  • African Studies Association Conference
  • African Cinema Conference
  • Athens International Studies Film and Video Festival
  • Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO)

    Item no.: HE01880034
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 73 minutes
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 250.00

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    FOURTH DIMENSION, THE

    By Trinh T. Minh-ha

    Acclaimed filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha ventures into the digital realm with her stunning new feature, "The Fourth Dimension," an incisive and insightful examination of Japan through its art, culture, and social rituals. As is the case with Trinh's previous films, her new video is a multi-layered work addressing issues around its central theme: the experience of time, the impossibility of truly "seeing," and the impact of video on image-making.

    THE FOURTH DIMENSION is an elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Minh-ha deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present. She explains, "Shown in their widespread functions and manifestations, including more evident loci such as festivals, religious rite and theatrical performance, 'rituals' involve not only the regularity in the structure of everyday life, but also the dynamic agents in the world of meaning." With its lush imagery, Minh-ha's Japan is viewed through mobile frames, with doors and windows sliding shut, revealing new vistas as it blocks out the old light.

    Reviews
  • "Trinh T. Minh-ha's newest essayistic work and her first videotape, cuts an intricate key for unlocking this elusive culture. Her tack finds great visual pleasure in the everyday, composing and decomposing the social landscape, while constructing a poetic grid of temporalities, symbolic meaning, and ritual. In The Fourth Dimension, Trinh's lyrical narration guides us through 'Japan's likeness,' the perfected framing of the sacramental familiar." - Steve Seid

  • "Reminiscent of Peter Greenaway...a mesmerizing mix of fluid images and poetic narration." - John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune

  • "Striking visual compositions and juxtapositions, a stunning sound design and an incisive voiceover¡K[She] engages us in a profound and deeply satisfying dialogue with our own preconceptions and desires, and encourages new ways of seeing." - Irina Leimbacher, Release Print

    Notes
  • Seoul Net Festival
  • Taiwan Women Make Waves Film & Video Festival
  • International Film Festival of New Film/Splitski Filmski Festival
  • Festival International del Film Locarno, Switzerland
  • Toronto Asian American Int'l Film Festivals
  • Dig.It Digital Film Festival, Walker Art Center
  • London International Film Festival
  • Graz Biennale, Austria
  • New York Video Festival
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • New York Asian American Int'l Film Festival
  • Edinburgh International Film Festival
  • Vienna International Film Festival

    Item no.: RP01880175
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 87 minutes
    Copyright: 2001
    Price: USD 395.00

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    BEYOND VOLUNTARY CONTROL

    By Cathy Cook

    Acclaimed filmmaker Cathy Cook ("The Match That Started My Fire") breaks new cinematic territory by devising a new visual language that explores the psychological and emotional effects of physical confinement in her latest film, "Beyond Voluntary Control." Stimulating the senses through haunting and poetic images, the film imaginatively conveys the obsessions, phobias and illnesses constricting personal freedom. While lyrically meditating on the limits of the body, Cook incorporates the evocative movements of modern dancer, David Figueroa, and blends a mesmerizing soundtrack set to the poems by Emily Dickinson and Sharon Olds. Through Figueroa's gestures and dance, along with a moving interview of Cook's own mother suffering from Parkinson's, the film succeeds in humanizing and reconciling the effects of physical metamorphosis and stasis. Through artistry and visual astuteness, "Beyond Voluntary Control" innovatively investigates the limits of human physicality and movement.

    Notes
  • Madcat Women's International Film Festival
  • Telluride Experimental Film & Video Festival
  • Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival
  • Women's Film Festival, New Mexico

    Awards
  • Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Editing Award
  • Black Maria Film & Video Festival, Honorable Mention

    Item no.: UF01880283
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 2000
    Price: USD 250.00

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    FILMING DESIRE: A JOURNEY THROUGH WOMEN'S FILM

    By Marie Mandy

    "In this bold documentary Marie Mandy asks the question: how do women directors film love, desire, and, especially, sexuality? In rare interviews with many of the leading women directors working in the world today ¡V including Sally Potter, Agnes Varda, Catherine Breillat, Doris Dorrie, Deepa Mehta, Moufida Tlatli, Safi Faye, and Jane Campion ¡V "Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women's Cinema" directly engages the sexual politics of cinematographic choice.

    Powerfully illustrated with film clips from their own work, the directors discuss the reality of an explicit women's point of view, the possibility of a women's cinematic language, and the desire in their films to 'fantasize and dream a new image of themselves'. While discussing how their depictions of sexuality and relationships are correctives, they also reflect on the sexual differences in selection of image, shot, and story. The film also provides a virtual anthology of the debates about the body, sexuality, power, and passion one sees in contemporary feminist and film theory: the body in representation and image; as a subject of censorship; as the vehicle of desire and love; as the contested ground of cinematic production; and as part of women's identity and voice.

    Reviews
  • Explicit, funny and beautifully edited, "Filming Desire" weaves an intriguing essay that is international in scope and reflective of the great diversity of women's filmmakers. Essential viewing for classes in women's studies, film studies, sexuality, body image, and feminist theory." - Joseph Boles, Visiting Scholar, Center for Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr

  • "For its historical value and insightful retrospective of how female filmmakers have dealt with desire¡K and for the exquisite pleasure of seeing 'how beautiful it is to make (female) bodies speak (dixit Cavani)'." - Chantal Nadeau, Concordia University, Montreal

    Notes
  • Montreal World Film Festival
  • Durban International Film Festival
  • Films des Femmes, Creteil, France
  • Boston International Women's Film Festival
  • Seoul Women's Film Festival
  • Women with Vision Film Festival, MN
  • Women in Cinema, WA
  • Women's Film Festival, VT
  • Cinema Paradise Film Festival
  • Manchester Film Festival
  • Halfway to Hollywood Film Festival

    Item no.: LY01880239
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 60 minutes
    Copyright: 2000
    Price: USD 295.00

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    LIP

    A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg

    It is Hollywood's favorite role for black women: the maid. Sassy or sweet, snickeringly attentive or flippantly dismissive, the performers who play them steal every scene they are in, and Tracy Moffatt's entertaining video collage reveals the narrow margin Hollywood has allowed black actresses to shine in. But shine they do. Giving lip is proven an art form in these scenes from 1930's cinema to present-day movies featuring a remarkable roster of undervalued actresses and their more celebrated white costars. Moffatt and Hillberg's rough, no-budget assembly effectively highlights with familiarity and humor the disturbing realization of how black characters and white characters still interact on screen, under Hollywood's eternally backwards eye.

    Review
  • "Maims melodrama forever, excising the hidden history of Hollywood's phantasm of white female stars served by black women extras. Mandatory for any cinema studies class." - Patricia Zimmermann, Ithaca College

  • "Tracy Moffatt's work delivers a bite that is almost imperceptible, until you realize long after seeing it that she has somehow altered your way of thinking." - Robert Byrd, Jerome Foundation

  • "'Lip' is a clever to brilliant rapid montage of scenes from Hollywood movies... these off-hand moments are biting criticism of racial stereotypes and, simultaneously, demonstrate that these wise-cracking maids were nobody's fool." - Patricia Mellencamp, University of Wisconsin

    Note
  • Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta

    Item no.: KB01880068
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 10 minutes
    Copyright: 1999
    Price: USD 250.00

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    SIREN SPIRITS

    By Ngozi Onwurah, Pratibha Parmar, Frances-Anne Solomon, Dani Williamson

    "Siren Spirits" is a wonderful feature comprising four short dramas directed by women of color, produced by the British Film Institute for BBC Television.

    Ngozi Onwurah's "White Men Are Cracking Up" uses a murder mystery to explore the legacies of British colonialism and the exoticization of Black women.

    Using magic realism, "Memsahib Rita" by Pratibha Parmar looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her white mother.

    Dani Williamson's "Get Me to the Crematorium on Time" is a moving portrait of undying love and grief. When her husband of twenty years dies, Bonetta is overcome by her loss and is taken to a mental hospital; but she knows she must escape to get to the crematorium to say farewell to the man with whom she has shared her life.

    In Frances-Anne Solomon's "Bideshi" a 50-year-old Bengali man lies in a coma in hospital, his soul stuck in a dark tunnel near death, until a resolution of his conflict with his daughter liberates his spirit.

    "Siren Spirits" shows the powerful complexity of family and race relations in contemporary society and is testament to the brilliant creativity of these four directors.

    Awards
  • Bombay International Film Festival
  • Clacutta International Film Festival
  • Vancouver Film Festival
  • Flanders Film Festival
  • Boston Int'l Women's Film Festival

    Item no.: NG01880235
    Format: VHS (Color, Black & White)
    Duration: 80 minutes
    Copyright: 1994
    Price: USD 295.00

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    COUNTDOWN

    By Ulrike Ottinger

    From one of Berlin's leading directors comes "Countdown", a fascinating chronicle of the divided Germany's final days. Ulrike Ottinger's documentary sharply observes the historic transformations taking place -- and what remains unchanged and unaffected by the unification process. Shot over the ten-day period leading to the union of the two currencies on July 1, 1990, the film's ten episodes record the people and streets of East and West Berlin. Evoking the melancholy of Walter Benjamin's writing and the same barbed sense of social criticism, this film memoir visits monuments such as the Reichstag, the "death strip" and Jewish cemeteries. Pockets of Berlin ignored by the other cameras are revealed: tavern workers, souvenir vendors, East German gays demonstrating for the first time in Alexanderplatz and the Turkish and Rumanian immigrants who remain on the periphery. What counts and what is counted out? Ottinger recounts the fanfare from an insider's perspective with subtle irony and humor.

    Review
  • "Crystallizes the powerful but tenuous moments of unity belonging to people marginal to 'official' unification. Elegiac and nostalgic." - Arthur Knight, New Art Examiner

    Notes
  • Berlin Film Festival
  • Montreal Women's Film Festival
  • Festival d'Autonme, Paris
  • Munich Documentary Festival

    Item no.: BA01880287
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 189 minutes
    Copyright: 1991
    Price: USD 395.00

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    MATCH THAT STARTED MY FIRE, THE

    By Cathy Cook

    The telephone rings and the girl-talk begins: secrets emerge and confessions build. An exciting experimental comedy in which the joy of sexual pleasure is discovered and experienced by women in their childhood and early teens. Climbing a rope, descending a slide, being stung by insects...a host of women tell their hilarious anecdotes of "the match that started their fire". The film is a visual montage of images that evoke a world of 1960s kitsch and nostalgia, with occasional darker hints of taboo and transgression.

    Reviews
  • "A joyous hymn to the female orgasm ...this is one of the best movies of the year, in any gauge, in any length." - Adrian Martin, Melbourne Film Festival

  • "Cleverly and whimsically, Cook celebrates the physical world as a kind of pleasure dome." - Reed Johnson, Detroit News

    Awards
  • Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best of Festival Award
  • Baltimore Film Festival, First Prize Experimental
  • Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Juror's Award

    Item no.: RY01880298
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 19 minutes
    Copyright: 1991
    Price: USD 250.00

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    AGE 12: LOVE WITH A LITTLE L

    By Jennifer Montgomery

    Unforgettable in its vivid construction of lesbian identity, Age 12 is a riveting amalgam of forbidden desire, transgression and piercing self-recognition. Raw adolescent memories of girl cliques in kilts, cruel games and a hidden stash of Playboys counterpoint staged scenes exploring mechanisms of power and submission.

    Review
  • "Defines a lesbian identity that's playful, aggressive and unashamedly erotic." - Karl Soehnlein, Village Voice

    Notes
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Melbourne International Film Festival
  • SF and LA Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals

    Item no.: ND01880282
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 22 minutes
    Copyright: 1990
    Price: USD 275.00

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    AUDITION, THE

    By Anna Campion

    The filmmaker's sister, Jane Campion, journeys home to New Zealand to audition her onetime actress mother for a small role as a schoolteacher in her film adaptation of Janet Frame's autobiographies, An Angel at My Table. The mother is somewhat resistant to the role, the camera and what she perceives as her daughter's manipulation. The daughter has her own resistance-to her mother's dark vision of the world. This deceptively simple drama, filmed with elegance and restraint, reveals nuances of mother/daughter roles while challenging the realist aesthetic.

    Reviews
  • "The most outstanding women's short feature ...that deals with the mother-daughter relationship." - Paula Langguth, Hot Wire

  • "Convincing, riveting." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Notes
  • New Directors/New Films
  • Films de Femmes, Creteil, France
  • Montreal Women's Film and Video Festival

    Item no.: DK01880219
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 24 minutes
    Copyright: 1990
    Price: USD 225.00

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    NIGHT CRIES: A RURAL TRAGEDY

    By Tracey Moffatt

    On an isolated, surreal Australian homestead, a middle-aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. The adopted daughter's attentive gestures mask an almost palpable hostility. Their story alludes to the assimilation policy that forced Aboriginal children to be raised in white families. The stark, sensual drama unfolds without dialogue against vivid painted sets as the smooth crooning of an Aboriginal Christian singer provides ironic counterpoint. Moffatt's first 35mm film displays rare visual assurance and emotional power.

    Reviews
  • "A dazzling grand opera of silence and maternity, as opulent as Robert Wilson, as soulfully anguished as Fassbinder." - Manohla Dargis, Best of 1990,Village Voice

  • "Unsentimental and self-consciously artificial, the film undermines any easy assumptions or conclusions. Formally innovative and thought-provoking at once." - Caryn James, New York Times

    Notes
  • Cannes Film Festival
  • New York Film Festival

    Awards
    ~Tampere Short Film Festival, Special Jury Award
  • Montreal Women's Film Festival, Best Short
  • Melbourne Film Festival, Best Australian Film

    Item no.: PG01880005
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 19 minutes
    Copyright: 1990
    Price: USD 275.00

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    SALLY'S BEAUTY SPOT

    By Helen Lee

    A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Offscreen women's voices and scenes from The World of Suzie Wong parallel and counterpoint Sally's own interracial relationships and emerging self-awareness. A provocative and stylish meditation on Asian femininity.

    Reviews
  • "Challenges fetishistic and colonialist forms of representation, wittily tracing a character's move from stereotypical object to sexual subject." - Laura Marks, Afterimage

  • "A brilliant meditation." - Richard Fung, Videomaker

    Notes
  • Toronto Festival of Festivals
  • Oberhausen Film Festival
  • NY Asian American Film Festival
  • LA Asian Pacific American Film Festival

    Award
  • Black Maria Film Festival, Juror's Award

    Item no.: ZP01880212
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 12 minutes
    Copyright: 1990
    Price: USD 250.00

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    LONDON STORY

    By Sally Potter

    This lively, accessible spy spoof revolves around the unlikely alliance of three eccentric characters and their mission to uncover government foreign policy duplicity. Beautifully and humorously choreographed against London's most famed locales. In technicolor! Produced in association with the British Film Institute and Channel Four Television.

    Review
  • "Miraculously outrageous. One of a handful of films which successfully mime and deconstruct Hollywood's production values." - Bruce Jenkins, Walker Art Center

    Notes
  • London Film Festival
  • Edinburgh Film Festival

    Item no.: CM01880296
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 15 minutes
    Copyright: 1987
    Price: USD 225.00

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    NICE COLORED GIRLS

    By Tracey Moffatt

    This stylistically daring film audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the "first encounter" between colonizers and native women with the attempts of modern urban Aboriginal women to reverse their fortunes. Through counterpoint of sound, image, and printed text, the film conveys the perspective of Aboriginal women while acknowledging that oppression and enforced silence still shape their consciousness.

    Review
  • "With humor, elegance and finesse, Tracey Moffatt brilliantly deconstructs the classic good girl/bad girl dichotomy in a game of seduction, symbolic violence and illusions." - Berenice Reynaud

    Notes
  • Berlin Film Festival
  • London Film Festival
  • Festival of Festivals, Toronto

    Item no.: CA01880004
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 16 minutes
    Copyright: 1987
    Price: USD 275.00

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    SEVEN WOMEN-SEVEN SINS

    Produced by Maxi Cohen

    What constitutes a deadly sin in this day and age, and how do you approach such a subject? Seven of the world's best-known women directors produce their own version of celluloid sin in this omnibus film. "Gluttony" is directed by Helke Sander, a German director whose body of work includes "Redupers -- the All Around Reduced Personality". New York-based Bette Gordon ("Variety", "Empty Suitcases") interpreted "Greed". Another New Yorker, Maxi Cohen, directed the award-winning "Anger" segment. "Sloth" was the domain of Belgian Chantal Akerman and Austrian Valie Export ("Invisible Adversaries") addressed "Lust". Laurence Gavron from France looked at "Envy" and Ulrike Ottinger, the German director whose work includes "Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia", directed "Pride". "Seven Women -- Seven Sins" is a perfect introduction for those new to the world of women's filmmaking and an interesting comparison of styles for those who are familiar with the work of these seven directors.

    Reviews
  • "As a survey of women's cinema and an examination of modern conceptions of sin, it's got to be seen." - Kay Armatage, Toronto Festival of Festivals

  • "A version of the seven vices that is livelier and more varied than any until now." - Annette Michelson, New York University

    Awards
  • Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Best Short Film for "Anger"
  • Tokyo Video Festival, Award of Special Distinction for "Anger"
  • Rotterdam Film Festival
  • AFI Fest, Los Angeles

    Item no.: EZ01880306
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 101 minutes
    Copyright: 1987
    Price: USD 295.00

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    GIRL'S OWN STORY, A

    By Jane Campion

    Beatlemania, the sixties and growing up. Some stories about girlhood: where family is strange, adulthood lonely, and innocence perverse.

    Review
  • "'A Girl's Own Story' is a film of acute tenderness and beauty that is all the more inspiring for being one of Campion's first." - Todd Haynes, Director, Poison

    Awards
  • Australian Film Awards, Best Direction
  • Sydney Film Festival, Rouben Mamoulian Award

    Item no.: LV01880224
    Format: VHS (Black & White)
    Duration: 27 minutes
    Copyright: 1986
    Price: Will be available soon

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    NAVAJO TALKING PICTURE

    By Arlene Bowman

    In Navajo Talking Picture film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother. The filmmaking persists in spite of her grandmother's forceful objections to this invasion of her privacy. Ultimately, what emerges is a thought-provoking work which abruptly calls into question issues of "insider/outsider" status in a portrait of an assimilated Navajo struggling to use a "white man's" medium to capture the remnants of her cultural past. Excellent for film studies as well as those interested in Native American culture.

    Reviews
  • "Bowman herself emerges as a sympathetic character from an absurdist comedy as both her ancestry and film goals elude her." - Steven Mikulan, Los Angeles Weekly

  • "Unsparingly honest." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    Notes
  • New Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Turin Int'l Film Festival
  • National Educational Film and Video Festival
  • UCLA Native American Film and Video Festival
  • Margaret Mead Film Festival

    Item no.: HT01880129
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 40 minutes
    Copyright: 1986
    Price: USD 295.00

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    PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE, THE

    By Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien

    The first film by Sankofa Film and Video, The Passion of Remembrance has gained classic status as a representation of the totality and diversity of Black experience. Within a dramatic framework the film gives a mosaic impression of the different dimensions of Black experience lived and imagined by a generation of filmmakers in the UK. As beautiful as it is eloquent, The Passion of Remembrance is critical viewing for those interested in race, gender, history and cinema studies.

    Review
  • "Really radical filmmaking...the filmmakers intend to raise the intelligence and consciousness of their audience." - Armond White, Film Comment

    Note
  • London Film Festival

    Item no.: RF01880234
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 80 minutes
    Copyright: 1986
    Price: USD 295.00

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    PRACTICE OF LOVE, THE (DIE PRAXIS DER LIEBE)

    By Valie Export

    "Valie Export's third feature is an anti-romance in which the heroine, oscillating between two relationships, gradually discovers that both are impossible, not because the subjective processes of "love" are defective, but because the objective, social matrix in which both her male lovers operate is corrupt, immoral, murderous: in this film, the male world and its power structures cancel the possibility of love beyond the matter of sexuality, that is the objectification of love. Export makes use of techniques drawn from her earlier experimental cinema, video and conceptual photography to expand the possibilities of narrative feature filmmaking and to disintegrate some of its overdetermined conventions." -Gary Indiana

    Review
  • "A dazzling cinematic tour-de-force, combining a thriller narrative with experimental images....The film makes a stunningly coherent indictment of male dominated society." - Alison Butler, National Film Theatre, London

    Item no.: BC01880302
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 90 minutes
    Copyright: 1985
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    SONG OF CEYLON, A

    By Laleen Jayamanne

    A formally rigorous, visually stunning study of colonialism, gender and the body. The title echoes the classic British documentary and evokes a country erased from the world map. The soundtrack enacts a Sri Lankan anthropological text observing a woman's ritual exorcism. Visually, the film brings together theatrical conventions and recreations of classic film stills, presenting the body in striking tableaux. This remarkable film is a provocative treatise on hybridity, hysteria and performance.

    Review
  • "The anthropological text is performed both like a musical score and a theatrical ritual....The film engages the viewer in the cinematic body as spectacle..." - Trinh T. Minh-ha, Discourse

    Notes
  • Sydney Film Festival
  • Melbourne Film Festival
  • Edinburgh Film Festival

    Item no.: GJ01880192
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 51 minutes
    Copyright: 1985
    Price: USD 295.00

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    AFTER HOURS

    By Jane Campion

    A confronting and realistic short drama by Academy Award-winning director, Jane Campion, about sexual harassment in the office. A young office worker alleges her boss sexually harassed her when she worked late at his request. She loses her job as a result of the claim. The investigator for the case finds it difficult to gather evidence from the tight-lipped and uncooperative office workers. Delicately drawn, "After Hours" raises important questions about discrimination, sexual harassment, gender relations and the interpretation of events.

    Reviews
  • "Recommended for discussion groups." - Video Rating Guide for Libraries

  • "Highly recommended for tactfully stimulating discussion on harassment issues." - Library Journal

    Item no.: UY01880281
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 26 minutes
    Copyright: 1984
    Price: USD 250.00

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    FAR FROM POLAND

    By Jill Godmilow

    When denied visas to shoot in Poland, a filmmaker, steeped in the documentary traditions of the left, decides to construct her film in New York City. Over the barest bones of documentary footage she drapes dramatic reenactments of Solidarity texts, formal vignettes and swatches of soap opera to engage the audience in her personal definition of the Polish struggle. A deft dismemberment of documentary truth, from the director of Waiting for the Moon. Made in collaboration with Susan Delson, Mark Magill and Andrzej Tymowski.

    Review
  • "Plays at the boundaries between documentary and fiction, reflexiveness and representation, sex and politics, sophistication and naivete, earnestness and irony." - Marsha Kinder, USC

    Notes
  • US Film Festival
  • Filmex, Los Angeles
  • Taipei International Film Exhibition
  • Mannheim Film Festiva

    Item no.: BH01880290
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 109 minutes
    Copyright: 1984
    Price: USD 250.00

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    IMAGE OF DORIAN GRAY IN THE YELLOW PRESS, THE: DORIAN GRAY IM SPIEGEL DER BOULVEVARDPRESSE

    By Ulrike Ottinger

    "In the poses of the dandy and the manufactured excesses of the tabloid press, Ottinger finds connections between our 'fin de siecle' moment and the last one, as well as a way to explore her own obsession with the artifice inherent in cinema and gender presentation. Her ingenious reworking of the Dorian Gray story features the late Delphine Seyrig as Dr. Mabuse, the chief executive of a multinational media organization whose machinations are worthy of her namesake, the sinister doctor of German expressionist film. Her unscrupulous plan to increase circulation-"We will create personalities, sensations, scandals and catastrophes of our own"-provides an perfect framework for Ottinger's rich tableaux and episodic narrative structure. Dorian Gray-young, rich, handsome and narcissistic-is the tool: 'We will build him up, seduce him and destroy him!' Played in drag by 60's supermodel Veruschka von Lehndorff, this Dorian's initiation takes place on a indelible nighttime tour of the Berlin underworld. In a fantastically staged opera within the film, Seyrig appears as a Spanish Inquisitor and Dorian confronts his mirror image and his great love. Will Dorian Gray become Dr. Mabuse's victim or her best pupil? This epic of queer cinema is a fitting tribute to Oscar Wilde and an uncanny evocation of our current preoccupation with celebrity and the transgressive possibilities of gender performativity." - Patricia White, Swarthmore College

    Review
  • "Explores the possibilities of post-modern design in a series of boldly inventive tableaux...Dorian Gray becomes an odyssey, involving a journey through a Dante-esque underworld that even includes an avant-garde opera!" - Kevin Thomas, LA Times

    Item no.: VY01880294
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 150 minutes
    Copyright: 1984
    Price: USD 395.00

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    ADYNATA

    By Leslie Thornton

    A formal 1861 portrait of a Chinese Mandarin and his wife is the starting point for this allegorical investigation of the fantasies spawned in the West about the East, particularly that which associates femininity with the mysterious Orient. Adynata presents a series of oppositions-male and female images, past and present sounds-which in and of themselves construct a minimal and fragmentary narrative, an open text of our imaginations, fears and fantasies.

    Review
  • "Beautiful and beguiling...mixes Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player with The Bride of Frankenstein, a TV cop show and a Betty Boop cartoon-yielding a complex form of signification run riot." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sight & Sound

    Notes
  • Rotterdam Film Festival

  • Mannheim Film Festival

    Award
  • Athens Int'l Film Festival, Special Merit Award

    Item no.: NU01880170
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 1983
    Price: USD 295.00

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    ILLUSIONS

    By Julie Dash

    The time is 1942, a year after Pearl Harbor; the place is National Studios, a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio. Mignon Dupree, a Black woman studio executive who appears to be white and Ester Jeeter, an African American woman who is the singing voice for a white Hollywood star are forced to come to grips with a society that perpetuates false images as status quo. This highly-acclaimed drama by one of the leading African American women directors follows Mignon's dilemma, Ester's struggle and the use of cinema in wartime Hollywood: three illusions in conflict with reality.

    From the director of the critically acclaimed Daughters of the Dust.

    Reviews
  • "Illusion beats with a strong feminist heart: in the film Mignon Dupree learns to reject the Hollywood model but also to create her own." - Anne Christine D'Adesky, The Guardian

  • "One of the most brilliant achievements in style and concept in recent American filmmaking¡K" - Clyde Taylor, Guest Curator Whitney Museum of Art

  • "Cleverly uses film itself as a metaphor for the myths fostered by whites and men about Blacks and women." - Marcia Pally, Village Voice

    Item no.: LP01880066
    Format: DVD (Black & White)
    Duration: 34 minutes
    Copyright: 1983
    Price: USD 275.00

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    JURY OF HER PEERS, A

    By Sally Heckel

    On a desolate American farm in the early 1900's, a farmer is found murdered in his sleep and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. The highly anticipated re-release of this feminist film classic, a powerful adaptation of the 1917 Susan Glaspell short story, A JURY OF HER PEERS presents a riveting tale of revenge, justice and women's shared experience. Equally relevant in women's studies courses and for use with organizations battling violence against women, this riveting film probes the notion of women's victimization and justifiable homicide and opens the possibility for the creation of an alternate, feminist justice and judgment.

    Two women, a neighbor and the sheriff's wife, find themselves in the accused woman's kitchen while the prosecuting attorney and their husbands search the farm for motive for the crime. As the camera lingers on small details in the kitchen ¡V spilled sugar, a broken chair, crooked stitches in a quilt piece ¡V the motive becomes clear as the suspect's isolated life of physical and emotional abuse is revealed. As each new clue further incriminates the accused, the women must decide whether to reveal the evidence against her and become, in effect, a jury of her peers.

    Reviews
  • "Simple, powerful, jolting." - The New York Times

  • "Brilliant and compelling little masterpiece." - David Robinson, The London Times

  • "A gripping short drama that lays open some of the most basic differences between men's and women's lives, and the potential bearing of these differences on legal norms. A genuine classic." - Katharine T. Bartlett, Professor, Duke University School of Law

  • "How wonderful that A Jury of Her Peers is again available¡Kfor provoking critical thought about gender and social institutions, as well as for exploring notions of women's voice, feminist perspective, and collective identity. ¡KFrom introduction to women's studies to feminist research methods, it never fails to get my students thinking in new ways about women, history, and justice." - Andrea Friedman, Hist. & Women's Studies, Washington University

    Notes
  • Virginia Film Festival
  • American Film Festival ¡V Blue Ribbon
  • Chris Statuette- Columbus Film Festival
  • Cine Golden Eagle
  • London International Film Festival, England-1980
  • Mannheim International Filmweek- West Germany-1980
  • Melbourne Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Perth Film Festival-Australia
  • Tampere Film Festival- Finland
  • Telluride Film Festival, USA-1981
  • Virginia Film Festival
  • Wellington Film Festival- New Zealand

    Awards
  • Academy Award Nomination ¡V Best Dramatic Live-Action Short 1980
  • ATOM Award- Australian Teachers of Media
  • Best Dramatic Film- Santa Fe Winter Film Exposition
  • Judges' Award- Sinking Creek Film Celebration

    Item no.: GL01880520
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 30 minutes
    Copyright: 1980
    Price: USD 195.00

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    DAUGHTER RITE

    By Michelle Citron

    "Daughter Rite is a classic, the missing link between the 'direct Cinema' documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth couldn't always be found in front of a camera lens. Scandalous in its day for bending the rules of representation to enlighten its audience about filmmaking, DAUGHTER RITE has a lot to teach folks hooked on reality TV, too. Citron's documentary inquiries into feminism, women in the trades, and feminist approaches to media representation are time capsules that merit re-opening." - B. Ruby Rich, author of " Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement"

    Reviews
  • "A technically stunning achievement." - Vincent Canby,New York Times

  • "The beauty of Citron's subject and of her treatment is the more personal it becomes, the more political it be-comes. Every woman who has a mother ought to see this film." - Jane Feuer,Jump Cut

    Item no.: RK01880288
    Format: DVD (Color)
    Duration: 53 minutes
    Copyright: 1979
    Price: USD 350.00

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    THRILLER

    By Sally Potter

    Since its release in 1980, Sally Potter's rewriting of Puccini's opera, La Boheme, has become a classic in feminist film theory. A model for the deconstruction of the Hollywood film, Thriller turns the conventional role of women as romantic victims in fiction on its head. Mimi, the seamstress heroine of the opera who must die before the curtain goes down, decides to investigate the reasons for her death. In doing so, she begins to explore the dichotomy which separates her from the opera's other female character, the "bad girl" Musetta.

    As rich in sounds and imagery as it is theoretically compelling, Thriller provides the female spectator with a long-awaited recognition of her version of the story.

    Review
  • "The first feminist murder mystery. Potter has retained a strong sense of timing, of entertainment and of the audience....It becomes an exemplary sign of how pleasurable and how illuminating a new feminist art can be." - B. Ruby Rich, Chicago Reader

    Notes
  • Florence Film Festival
  • London Film Festival
  • Edinburgh Film Festival
  • Berlin Film Festival

    Item no.: CN01880308
    Format: DVD (Black & White)
    Duration: 34 minutes
    Copyright: 1979
    Price: USD 395.00

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    INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES (UNSICHTBARE GEGNER)

    By Valie Export

    Breaking free of conventional unities of body, space and time, this early feature by one of Europe's leading feminist filmmakers is a haunting excursion into psychic disintegration and crumbling identity. It loosely covers one year in the life of Anna, a young Viennese photographer increasingly convinced that the Hyksos, a hostile alien force, are invading people's bodies and responsible for the decay and rising violence around her. Valie Export skillfully exploits montage and integrates video, performance and installation art with elements from Cubism, Surrealism, Dada and avant-garde cinema.

    Review
  • "The film is a witty and visually brilliant essay on gender and experience, culture and environment." - Alison Butler, National Film Theatre, London

    Item no.: EG01880295
    Format: VHS (Color)
    Duration: 100 minutes
    Copyright: 1976
    Price: Will be available soon

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    FILMS OF MAYA DEREN, THE: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS 1943-1959

    By Maya Deren

    Maya Deren's fascinating and beautiful films are masterpieces of their era and provide an important insight into the history of the avant-garde. "Meshes of the Afternoon" (1943, 14 minutes), "At Land" (1944, 14 minutes, Silent), "A Study in Choreography for Camera" (1945, 3 minutes, Silent), "Ritual in Transfigured Time" (1946, 15 minutes, Silent), "Meditation on Violence" (1948, 13 minutes), and "The Very Eye of Night" (1959, 15 minutes).

    Item no.: KB01880289
    Format: VHS (Black & White)
    Duration: 76 minutes
    Copyright: 1959
    Price: USD 195.00

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    FILMS OF JANE CAMPION, THE

    By Jane Campion

    The internationally acclaimed director of THE PIANO, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE and SWEETIE first displayed her visual flair and dark humor in these award-winning shorts. The compilation includes:

    A GIRL'S OWN STORY is about Beatlemia, the sixties and growing up. Some stories about girlhood: where family is strange, adutlhood lonely, and innocence perverse.

    PASSIONLESS MOMENTS is a series of wry vignettes: Sean and Arnold Not Speaking; Scotties, Part of the Grand Design of the Universe; Angela Eats Meats, Ironing on Sunday; and others...

    PEEL takes place on a hot Australian summer's day, a recalcitrant, freckled, red-headed family of three go on a Sunday drive in the country. Their outing results in an intrigue of awesome belligerence. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The internationally acclaimed director of THE PIANO, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE and SWEETIE first displayed her visual flair and dark humor in these award-winning shorts. The compilation includes:

    Reviews
  • "A beautifully photographed, sharply drawn drama...A lovely debut which will be compared to Jane Campion's later work but will certainly live up to the comparison." - Ann Golden, Cinema Femmes

  • "These deceptively fragile-looking and tough-minded short films reveal familiar power plays from multiple points of view, punctuated by telling close-ups. A promising young director's take on the origins of narrative." - Amy Taubin, Top 10, Village Voice

    Notes
  • Passionless Moments: Best Experimental Film, American Film Institute
  • A Girl's Own Story: American Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay in a Short Film
  • Peel: Cannes, Golden Palm for Best Short Film

    Item no.: PE01880221
    Format: DVD (Color, Black & White)
    Duration: 49 minutes
    Price: USD 295.00

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