Image Union, episode 0825
A collection of films and videos from the 1986 Women in the Director’s Chair Festival.
A collection of films and videos from the 1986 Women in the Director’s Chair Festival.
Raw footage for the 1976 documentary “Making It In Hollywood,” which follows several actors as they attempt to break into the movie business. More raw footage shot at actress Sally Kirkland’s home. Kirkland and several of her actress friends discuss the difficulties of achieving success as an actor in Hollywood. They talk about the importance of “looking the part” in Hollywood; and their experience with agents. Also, Kirkland gets a phone call from her mother, Sally Kirkland, Sr., longtime fashion editor at Vogue magazine, and from film director John Badham. (The other end of phone is heard on Audio Channel 2.)
Raw footage for the 90’s Election Specials. This tape features interviews with Barbara Barg, Diane Torr, Francis Fox Pixer, author of “Why Americans Don’t Vote.”
Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. Vdeomaker Laura Flanders visits a mobile health clinic for low income people in New York and speaks with a few representatives from the Left Business Observer, a newsletter on economics and politics.
This episode of Image Union is in honor of International Women’s Day. Works include “Festival De Mujeres” by Eleanor Boyer and Karen Peugh and “La Llaronda” by Nancy de los Santos, Librado Martinez III, Eugene Lisansky, and Jeff Chown.
Hour long compilation episode of Image Union featuring “Jane Byrne Election Night” by Scott Jacobs with Cindy Neal and Lilly Ollinger,”La Traviata” by Catherine DeJong, “Four Women Over 80” by Max Greenberg, an excerpt from “Two is Better” by Jane Gaines, “Rugby Women” by Eleanor Boyer, a tape from the Community TV Network, “Curtain” by Barbara Laitham, an excerpt from “Self Defense” by Michelle Citron, and “Girls Talk Liberation” by Lilly Ollinger.
Raw footage shot for the award-winning series The 90’s. This tape features footage of Rev. Jesse Jackson on the streets of Washington, D.C. during the May 1991 Washington D.C. riot, also called the Mount Pleasant riot. It is followed by an interview with lawyer Alexa Freeman of the ACLU National Prison Project about incarcerated women.
Vision MKG. Cover Girl. Waterfront. Eddie Becker records the process of a fashion photo shoot for Vision Magazine, including interviews with the photographer and the model. He then interviews three bystanders who watched the shoot. They discuss their opinions about fashion and the media’s representation of women.