2/11/21: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Franklin López
2/11/21: screening/discussion with filmmaker Franklin López, moderated by Stephen Charbonneau.
2/11/21: screening/discussion with filmmaker Franklin López, moderated by Stephen Charbonneau.
The documentary TRANSSEXUALS features a look at the transgender community in New York in 1971.
Laurie Little is a Chicago-based filmmaker, artist, and educator.
Skip Blumberg is an activist and video artist whose work has been shown widely on TV, the web, media art centers, and museums.
Tom Weinberg is a pioneering TV and nonfiction producer who has worked in video for more than 50 years.
Eleanor Boyer is a Chicago-based videomaker who has worked in video activism since the 1970s, beginning with her work on the Women’s Video Project at the Loop YWCA.
Re-edit of episode 9. The crew goes to several racially mixed Chicago neighborhoods to ask black people “What do you think of white people?” and vice versa. No one gave a dull response…
Two particularly excruciating scenarios of situation comedy – delayed gratification. Segments include “Horror in the Bathroom” and “Love in the Void.” In retrospect, this episode seems to reflect the apotheosis of self-hatred and despair which bubbled up during the series’ first season, before the producers thought anyone was watching at all.AIR DATES: May 28, June 4, 1990