Copy Me - I Want to Travel
A film by Pauline Boudry, Brigitta Kuster and Renate Lorenz

With the cadence of a classic spy film, COPY ME - I WANT TO TRAVEL takes three female computer programmers and three female filmmakers on a goose chase around Bulgaria in search of the world’s most notorious virus programmer, the Dark Avenger. Perhaps surprisingly, tiny Bulgaria with its abundance of trained but unemployed programmers became known as the world's "virus factory" in the 1990s. The film presents a provocative hypothesis: with the collapse of socialism and the demise of the Bulgarian computer industry in 1989, viruses were used as a form of social protest against increasing western encroachment during the transition from socialism to capitalism. More

The Gender Chip Project
A film by Helen De Michiel

Essential viewing for students, educators, counselors, policy makers and parents, THE GENDER CHIP PROJECT is being hailed as an important resource for addressing the disparity of representation of women in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Although women comprise the majority of undergraduates in America, only 20 percent are earning degrees in engineering and computer science. Opportunities for workers in STEM fields are expected to increase by 5.6 million by 2008, yet only 11 percent of the science and engineering workforce is comprised of women. With statistics like these—and recent controversies such as the firestorm created when a prominent university president suggested women lack innate abilities in math and science—it’s clear that the road to success in the high-stakes STEM professions is not an easy one for young women. More

Nalini By Day, Nancy by Night
A film by Sonali Gulati

In this insightful documentary, filmmaker Sonali Gulati explores complex issues of globalization, capitalism and identity through a witty and personal account of her journey into India’s call centers. Gulati, herself an Indian immigrant living in the US, explores the fascinating ramifications of outsourcing telephone service jobs to India—including how native telemarketers take on Western names and accents to take calls from the US, UK and Australia. More

	Rosebud Film & Video Festival, Festival Award
	Humboldt Int’l Film Festival, Ledo Matteoli Award

On the Eighth Day
A two-part film series by Gwynne Basen

ON THE EIGHT DAY, a two-part film series, is critical viewing about new reproductive and genetic technologies and poses disturbing questions about why these technologies are being developed and how they may affect the lives of women and society as a whole. MAKING BABIES offers a compelling and insightful exploration of the origins and applications of in vitro fertilization. The second part, MAKING PERFECT BABIES, is a critical examination of the application of genetic technology and the social and economic pressures which may influence the development and use of these procedures. More

Performing the Border
A film by Ursula Biemann

A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas, this imaginative, experimental work investigates the growing feminization of the global economy and its impact on Mexican women living and working in the area. Looking at the border as both a discursive and material space, the video explores the sexualization of the border region through labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere. More

The Phantom of the Operator
A film by Caroline Martel

This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central place in the development of global communications. With an eye for the quirky and humorous, Caroline Martel assembles a dazzling array of clips – more than one hundred remarkable, rarely seen industrial, advertising and scientific management films produced in North America between 1903 and 1989 by Bell and Western Electric – and transforms them into a dreamlike montage documentary. More

Remote Sensing
A film by Ursula Biemann

In Biemann’s latest video, she traces the routes and reasons of women who travel across the globe for work in the sex industry. By using the latest images from NASA satellites, the film investigates the consequences of the U.S. military presence in South East Asia as well as European migration politics. This video-essay takes an earthly perspective on cross-border circuits, where women have emerged as key actors and expertly links new geographic technologies to the sexualization and displacement of women on a global scale. By revealing how technologies of marginalization affect women in their sexuality, REMOTE SENSING aspires to displace and resignify the feminine within sexual difference and cultural representation. More

Writing Desire
A film by Ursula Biemann

"Ursula Biemann’s WRITING DESIRE is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women’s bodies from the third world to the first world. Although under-age Philippine 'pen pals' and post-Soviet mail-order brides have been part of the transnational exchange of sex in the post-colonial and post-Cold War marketplace of desire before the digital age, the Internet has accelerated these transactions. Biemann provides her viewers with a thoughtful meditation on the obvious political, economic and gender inequalities of these exchanges by simulating the gaze of the Internet shopper looking for the imagined docile, traditional, pre-feminist, but Web-savvy mate. More