Rainbow Soup
Watch an episode of “Rainbow Soup” featuring various artists of all mediums from around the world!
Watch an episode of “Rainbow Soup” featuring various artists of all mediums from around the world!
Margaret Walker has been described by Nikki Giovanni as the “most famous person nobody knows.” Walker established one of the first Black Studies centers in the nation, was mentored by Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois, and her signature poem, “For My People,” set a tone and a level of commitment to which African-American writers have been responding ever since. Narrated by Ruby Dee, this biographical film combines conversations with Walker, readings from her poetry, and commentary from leading scholars to make a powerful argument for the centrality of her work to contemporary American literature.
“This piece, executed on a hybrid computer developed by the Computer Image Corp., is an impressionistic view of a woman in conflict.” An image processing work that abstracts images of a woman. Premiered at the Women’s Video Festival in 1975.
Two interviews from a series highlighting women with careers in the arts. This tape includes interviews with Muriel Cooper, Media Director for M.I.T. Press, and Elizabeth Cook, Director of Boston’s Office of Cultural Affairs.
From LeAnn Erickson: “In American society, what part does pop culture, religion, and family play in ‘teaching’ kids about gender roles? With tongue in cheek, and thorough interviews, and constructed ‘television’/media representations, Mystery Dates investigates how girls ‘become’ women.
From LeAnn Erickson: “From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories (c.1996) is an 80 minute film portrait of The Emma Goldman Clinic for Women, located in Iowa City, IA. This clinic formed as a Marxist collective in 1973, right after the Roe v Wade decision. This film speaks to the radical feminist politics happening during the 1970s and into the Reagan 80s.”
Judith Binder and Nancy Cain introduce an episode of CamNet on KCET’s Independent Eye.