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  For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker

  Arts & Culture, Black

  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.

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  Video Vitae

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Image Processing, Pat Lehman

  “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.

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  Career Counciling for Women in the Arts: Muriel Cooper & Elizabeth Cook

  Arts & Culture, CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  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.

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  Mystery Dates

  Uncategorized

  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.

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  From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories

  Politics

  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.”

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  [CamNet on Independent Eye]

  1992 Election, Black, Chicago, Nancy Cain, Performance, Politics, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll, Videomakers

  Judith Binder and Nancy Cain introduce an episode of CamNet on KCET’s Independent Eye.

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  [10/15 AL ARTICLE]

  Chicago, Communities

  Celeste Neuhaus’s experimental student documentary, featuring an interview with Al Kohn about his storefront coffee shop.

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  [Al’s]

  Chicago, Communities, Videomakers

  Celeste Neuhaus’s experimental student documentary, focusing on Al and Ben Kohn’s storefront coffee shop.