Shirley
Artist Larry Rivers’ portrait of his mother, Shirley Grossberg. Also known as “My Mother Shirley.”
Artist Larry Rivers’ portrait of his mother, Shirley Grossberg. Also known as “My Mother Shirley.”
Footage and interviews filmed at Creative Concoctions, a workshop and craft store affiliated with Chrysalis, an alternative high school in Chicago.
Home movies of a young Black mother and her son Chris, a toddler, playing outside with a babysitter and neighbors.
Ann Volkes calls the numbers of men who have advertised in the back pages of Screw Magazine in search of a model for a sexually explicit video installation.
Footage of the marquees, billboards, and storefronts on 42nd Street in New York City.
A children’s classroom. The kids sing songs. One of the children, with a visual impairment, demonstrates the use of a braille typewriter.