5/17/24: Festival de Mujeres and Historic Pilsen Videos at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura
A screening of Festival de Mujeres and other historic videos of PIlsen at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura.
A screening of Festival de Mujeres and other historic videos of PIlsen at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura.
A symposium presented by Media Burn, the University of Chicago’s Cinema and Media Studies Department, and the School of the Art Institute’s Video Data Bank. April 19-21 at the University of Chicago’s Cobb Hall 307 (5811 S. Ellis Ave) When video cameras first became widely available in the late 1960s, a global network of artists, activists, and documentarians quickly had the same realization: video is not merely a new format; video will change EVERYTHING about moving image media. Over the […]
The opening event of the symposium Guerrilla Television: The Revolutions of Early Independent Video, which took place in the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center April 19-21, 2024. This screening on Friday, April 19, features clips and short videos from the 1970s, with introductions by the individual artists, scholars, and curators.
Promotional videos for the second Women’s Video Festival, which took place at The Kitchen in New York City from Sept. 28-Oct. 14, 1973.
A rehearsal for the vocal group The Stepsisters, including videomaker Susan Milano, recorded December 10, 1973.
A videoletter from San Francisco featuring interviews with elderly women about the Great Depression and footage of a performance by the Lilitheatre Collective.
A documentary about two women pursuing careers that had historically been entirely male: Jeannette Piccard, an Episcopalian priest, and Helen Jost, a helicopter pilot. A video produced by the Video Workshop of the Women’s Interart Center in New York City.
Susan Milano uses tape delay to sing with herself. Footage of a CBS News Report covering the first New York Women’s Video Festival. An extended clip of the movie 42nd Street.
Videomaker Susan Milano’s videoletter, created for friends in England. Footage recorded from soap operas for use in the video Random Violence.
Videomaker Susan Milano discusses her working teaching video to women as well as the history of the New York Women’s Video Festival and video installations created through a workshop at the Woman’s Inter-Art Center.