[London 5: Inter-Action Community Media Van (June 21-22, 1973)]
Footage shot of the Inter-Action Trust’s Community Media Van in London on June 21, 1973, and a church service for the Essenes shot the following day.
Footage shot of the Inter-Action Trust’s Community Media Van in London on June 21, 1973, and a church service for the Essenes shot the following day.
A home movie recording of men moving a piano down the stairs from videomaker Susan Milano’s third floor apartment.
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.
A documentary about the all-female rock band Isis, featuring Carol MacDonald, Ginger Bianco, Suzi Ghezzi, Stella Bass, Lolly Bienenfield, Liberty Mata, and Lauren Draper.
An upside-down mouth, with drawn-on eyes and nose, lip synchs to the words of Richard Nixon from the May 8, 1970 Presidential News Conference.
From the 1976 Women’s Video Festival program, which credits the video to Carol Vontobel: “In this video fantasy, a portapak and its camera come to life for an informal debate. ‘Portapak Conversation’ was shot on 1/2″ using a special effects generator and keyer. It was first shown in the Women’s Video Festival in 1975.”
Two short experimental video poems. Trilogy Part II – Interlude is an impressionistic portrait of a young couple that incorporates animation. Mary is a surreal short narrative that follows a woman’s descent into madness in her apartment.
One channel of the two-channel video installation Different Strokes for Different Folks, by Ann Volkes and Susan Milano. The installation mocks and critiques attitudes towards pornography.