Compilation: Wah Hong: A Medicinal Herb Store, I Dream… of Dreaming…, Call Her Amedia

A compilation of videos by Barbara Sykes, including the documentary Wah Hong: A Medicinal Herb Store, I Dream... of Dreaming..., and Call Her Amedia.

00:05Copy video clip URL Wah Hong: A Medicinal Herb Store (1981):. A short documentary portrait of an herb shop in Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood on Wentworth Ave. The shop workers help customers, including an elderly white woman searching for treatments for her multiple sclerosis. 

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06:05Copy video clip URL I Dream… of Dreaming… (1980): An image processing video that blends dance and abstract images, distorting or superimposing over dance footage. 

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10:12Copy video clip URL Call Her Amedia: Excerpt of a Performance by Ellen Fisher (1980). Video documentation of a dance performance in which Fisher knocks over and interacts with an elaborate set.

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