San Francisco Area Videoletter
A videoletter from San Francisco featuring interviews with elderly women about the Great Depression and footage of a performance by the Lilitheatre Collective.
A videoletter from San Francisco featuring interviews with elderly women about the Great Depression and footage of a performance by the Lilitheatre Collective.
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 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.
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.
A screening/discussion of Nancy Cain’s foundational feminist classic Harriet (1973) and Lori Felker’s acclaimed Spontaneous (2020) with artist Felker and media scholar Melissa Dollman.
Taped at the first-ever women’s street fair held in Pilsen, a predominantly Latinx, working-class neighborhood in Chicago. The event was organized by Mujeres Latinas in Accion to showcase Latinx women’s culture and to provide information about social services, health services and recreational opportunities available for women. The video captures the activity and color of the fair and features readings by poets Salima Rivera and Marta Callazo. Comments by organizers, participants and local residents give insight into the role of Latinx women in society at that time. Produced, videotaped, and edited by Eleanor Boyer and Karen Peugh with a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
This tape consists of three short videos: “Harriet” by Nancy Cain, and “King Cotton” and “Pelicans” by Rita Ogden.
This tape features footage of a meeting of a collective representing the first female-owned art gallery in Chicago. The Artist’s Residence of Chicago is a group comprised of all female artists with the goal of highlighting women’s art in a male dominated field.