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  Getting Strong: Self Defense For Women

  Chicago, Eleanor Boyer, Videomakers

  In the early 1970’s Chicago’s Loop Center YWCA implemented a variety of anti-rape programs to combat societal beliefs and institutional practices that negatively impacted women. Self defense for women was one of these programs. In this video, comments by men, women and interviews with women self-defense instructors, Carol Whiteside, Sue Gould and Andra Medea, document prevailing attitudes about women’s ability to defend themselves from physical attack. The video shows techniques taught in the women’s self-defense classes at the Loop YWCA.

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  Women Working: Pioneers in Carpentry

  Chicago, Eleanor Boyer

  Jobs in construction carpentry and cabinet making, and the good pay derived them, traditionally have been the domain of men. This video gives a first-hand look at carpentry apprenticeship as experienced by some of the first women to enter these trades in the 1970’s. The camera follows women carpenters at work on job sites including a high-rise under construction, a carpentry shop at a sewer project and in a production cabinet shop. They talk about the training they receive, the working conditions, the kinds of responses they get from male co-workers and the benefits derived from their support-group, Chicago Women Carpenters. Produced by Audrey Denecke for the Women’s Pre-Apprenticeship Project, Midwest Women’s Center, Chicago. Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1981.

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  La Maestra: Maria Luisa Michel Almonte

  Chicago, Communities, Eleanor Boyer, Latinx, Videomakers

  Maria Almonte immigrated from Mexico to Chicago’s Pilsen–Little Village neighborhood in 1950. An
  artist/teacher, she supported her family from her flower shop business and became a leader in the
  educational and cultural life of the community. She taught traditional arts, crafts, and practical skills

  like dress-making in settlement houses, in community workshops and in her own studio. At the age of
  70 she continued to teach and act on her belief that artistic expression is a powerful tool for
  developing cultural identity and individual self-esteem. The video shows Ms. Almonte in community-
  sponsored workshops teaching neighborhood residents how to make traditional cut-paper ornaments
  and how to design clothing. In the hall of a local church her students model their creations and receive
  recognition. Produced, directed and edited by Eleanor Boyer and Karen Peugh. Partially funded by
  the Illinois Arts Council and the Center for New Television with a Joyce Foundation grant.
  Gold Can Award, Chicago Access Corporation, 1986; Certificate of Merit, Chicago International
  Film Festival, 1984

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  [Emanations 2]

  Arts & Culture, Barbara Sykes, Chicago, CLIR, Image Processing, Roots of Video

  Raw image processing footage used in Barbara Sykes’ work “Emanations,” made with the Sandin Image Processor.

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  [Emanations 1]

  Arts & Culture, Barbara Sykes, Chicago, CLIR, Image Processing, Roots of Video

  Raw image processing footage used in Barbara Sykes’ work “Emanations,” made with the Sandin Image Processor.

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  [A Movement Within]

  Arts & Culture, Barbara Sykes, Chicago, CLIR, Image Processing, Roots of Video

  This is a master tape for Barbara Sykes’ work “A Movement Within” (1976) made with the Sandin Image Processor.

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  The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak / Electronic Masks / Clowns

  Arts & Culture, Barbara Sykes, Chicago, CLIR, Image Processing, Roots of Video, Videomakers

  This is a reel consisting of Barbara Sykes’ works “By the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak” (1978), “Electronic Masks” (1978), and “Clowns” made with the Sandin Image Processor.

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  Circle 9 Sunrise / The Poem

  Arts & Culture, Chicago, CLIR, Image Processing, Roots of Video, Videomakers

  This is a reel consisting of Barbara Sykes’ live performance of “Circle 9 Sunrise” (1976) and the work “The Poem” (1975) and made with the Sandin Image Processor.