Browse Films

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    [title] => The Vienna Tribunal
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    [year_released] => 1994
    [text] => Highlights of moving personal testimonies at the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Rights-held in conjunction with U.N. World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993-reveal why women's rights need to be seen as human rights.  Made in conjunction with the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University, THE VIENNA TRIBUNAL is not simply a film documenting events of the past, but a thought-provoking analysis of the abuses women suffer all over the world.
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    [title] => Bedevil
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => BEDEVIL is the stunning debut feature from Tracey Moffatt (NIGHT CRIES, NICE COLORED GIRLS) and the first feature directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman.
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    [title] => Joan Does Dynasty/Joan Sees Stars
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => In the now classic, JOAN DOES DYNASTY (1986, 35 mins), Braderman superimposes her own image over scenes from one of the most popular night time soap operas in American history.  With spearing humor, Braderman doesn't even spare poor Krystal in her wicked deconstruction of the fantasies of capitalism, patriarchy and consumption. JOAN SEES STARS (1993, 60 mins) is a savvy peek at the way celebrity culture, especially movies stars, make their way in to our lives, our beds and our dreams.  
"Braderman looks at life through rose-colored glasses, then wipes them off and dishes the dirt. JOAN SEES STARS is no exception: movies meet life, life meets death and romance meets Perdue chicken in the meditation on our illicit VCR pleasures.  Watch, and eat your heart out." --B. Ruby Rich, Cultural Critic
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    [title] => Columbus on Trial
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => Inspired by the controversy surrounding the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of America, Portillo has fashioned a fanciful version of a courtroom were Columbus to return from his grave to stand trial. Cross-examined by the Latino comedy group, Culture Clash, Columbus is charged with atrocities against the Native peoples of the New World, including the rape and violent treatment of women. Satire and parody rule in this dynamic document about American history and colonization.
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    [title] => Dream Girls
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => This fascinating documentary, produced for the BBC, opens a door into the spectacular world of the Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful musical theater company in Japan.  Each year, thousands of girls apply to enter the male-run Takarazuka Music School. The few who are accepted endure years of a highly disciplined and reclusive existence before they can join the Revue, choosing male or female roles. DREAM GIRLS offers a compelling insight into gender and sexual identity and the contradictions experienced by Japanese women today.
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    [title] => And Still I Rise
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => Inspired by a poem by Maya Angelou, this powerful film explores images of Black women in the media, focusing on the myths surrounding Black women's sexuality.  Like COLOR ADJUSTMENT, in which Marlon Riggs looked at images of Black people on television, AND STILL I RISE uses images from popular culture to reveal the way the media misrepresents Black women's sexuality.  A combination of fear and fascination produces a stereotypical representation which in turn impacts on the real lives of Black women.  AND STILL I RISE intercuts historical and media images with hard-hitting contemporary views of women of African heritage as they struggle to create a new and empowered perspective.

Both a celebration and a critique, AND STILL I RISE is essential viewing for those interested in African American studies, women's studies, media studies and popular culture.  From the director of THE BODY BEAUTIFUL and COFFEE COLORED CHILDREN.
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    [title] => Women of Niger
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => Niger is a traditionally Islamic country where authorized polygamy and Muslim fundamentalism clash with the country’s struggle for democracy.  In elections in 1993, men voted by proxy for their different wives and daughters.  Women who speak out about their rights have been physically attacked and ex-communicated by the ayatollahs. Working together, women are the most ardent defenders of democracy, which offers the best hope of winning the equal rights which are still denied them. Critical viewing for those interested in women’s human rights and the impact of fundamentalism.
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    [title] => Warrior Marks
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => WARRIOR MARKS is a poetic and political film about female genital mutilation from the director of A PLACE OF RAGE, presented by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE and POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY.
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    [title] => Monday’s Girls
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => This fascinating documentary, by the filmmaker of THE BODY BEAUTIFUL, follows two young Nigerian women’s different experiences of a traditional rite of passage.  Young virgins, irabo, spend five weeks in “fattening rooms”, emerging to dance before the villagers and to be married.  The girls wear heavy copper coils on their legs to enforce inactivity as they are waited on and honored by their families.  One of the young village women, Florence, is keen to take part. But Akisiye, who returns from the city at her father’s behest, is not certain she wants to.  Combining voice-over and interviews, MONDAY'S GIRLS documents tradition, modernity, dissent and contradiction in African women’s lives.
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    [title] => Dialogues with Madwomen
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => "I was always so afraid that someone would ask me (where I was when JFK was shot), and I would have to say I was in a mental institution", says director Allie Light.  This moving and informative film features seven women--including the filmmaker--describing their experiences with manic depression, multiple personalities, schizophrenia, euphoria and recovery.  Candid interviews are enriched with dramatic reenactments and visualizations of each woman's history, emotions, and dreams--the private symbols of madness and sanity. The social dimensions of women and mental illness are revealed in testimony about sexual assault, incest, racism and homophobia, the abuses of the medical establishment, family, and church.  Acknowledging that "madness" is often a way of explaining women's self-expression, this film charges us to listen to the creativity and courage of survivors.  Produced by the Academy Award winning filmmakers of IN THE SHADOWS OF THE STARS, DIALOGUES WITH MADWOMEN is a ground-breaking film about women and mental illness.
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    [title] => Ripples of Change
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    [year_released] => 1993
    [text] => Powerful political analysis is combined with a passionate personal story in this exceptional documentary about the Japanese women’s liberation movement in the 1970’s and its influence on contemporary Japanese society.  Director Nanako Kurihara left her homeland in the 1980’s, frustrated by the lack of interesting roles for women in Japan.  In New York, she met a Japanese woman who had been involved in the women’s liberation movement in Japan in the 1970’s.  Kurihara returned to Japan, bringing together interviews with veterans of the movement, fascinating archival footage and her personal impressions to produce a film which explores the meaning of the liberation movement, the factors that motivated it and the effect it has had on people’s attitudes.  RIPPLES OF CHANGE is an excellent resource for the study of global feminism, women’s roles and Japanese society.
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    [title] => Underexposed
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => Combining drama and documentary, UNDEREXPOSED: THE TEMPLE OF THE FETUS is a savvy and creative probe into high-tech baby-making.  The fictional framework of a TV journalist who unearths the ethical complications associated with new reproductive technologies allows thefilm to present complex documentary information about this issue in a clear and insightful way. From the director of I NEED YOUR FULL COOPERATION.
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    [title] => Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => A rare and lively examination of disability and homosexuality as it affects both women and men
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    [title] => Amazon Sisters
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => AMAZON SISTERS portrays the vision and strength of women surviving in the hotly contested Amazon rainforests.  While international attention has focused on saving the rainforests, considerably less attention has been paid to the plight of the human inhabitants of Amazonia.  Women are at the frontline of the struggle to save their environment and to rebuild a region suffering the effects of inappropriate development.  “A film which beautifully expresses the strength, humor and ability of the women of the Amazon Region.  It sharply reminds us, however, that simply feeling romantic about rainforests isn’t enough.  The need for serious support for both the environment and the health and safety of the people there is made abundantly clear.” —Margaret Prosser, National Women’s Secretary Transport and General Workers Union.
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    [title] => ¡Adelante Mujeres!
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => Spanning five centuries, this comprehensive film, produced by the National Women's History Project, focuses exclusively on the history of Mexican-American/Chicana women from the Spanish invasion to the present. Hundreds of previously unpublished photographs, art works, and contemporary footage pay tribute to the strength and resilience of women at the center of their families, as activists in their communities, and as contributors to American history. A companion to the ground-breaking Chicana, ¡Adelante Mujeres! is suitable for young adult and college-age audiences, and community and women's groups.
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    [title] => Who’s Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway?
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => A brilliant collage of interviews, family photographs, archival footage and personal narration, this film documents Japanese American video artist Janice Tanaka’s search for her father after a 40 year separation.  The two reunited when Tanaka found her father living in a halfway house for the mentally ill. Telling the moving story of her search as well as what she discovered about history, cultural identity, memory and family, WHO'S GOING TO PAY FOR THESE DONUTS, ANYWAY? is a rare look at connections between racism and mental illness.
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    [title] => The Women Next Door
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => THE WOMEN NEXT DOOR is a thoughtful and emotive documentary about women in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.  Israeli director Michal Aviad was living in the United States when the Intifada broke out in the West Bank and Gaza.  Filled with questions about how the Occupation affected women on both sides of the conflict she set off in a journey through Israel and the Occupied Territories with two other women -- a Palestinian assistant director and an Israeli cinematographer.  The film explores the roles that the Occupation designated for women on both sides and the questions it raises.  In a world of occupation, what is the meaning of femininity, motherhood, birth, violence, compassion and solidarity between women?  Can the womanhood of Israelis and Palestinians be separated from their political reality?  The women next door are the women on either side of the border, as well as, those who face the camera and those who stand behind it.  THE WOMEN NEXT DOOR provides a unique perspective on women’s lives in the Middle East and the critical part they play in rebuilding societies ravaged by war.
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    [title] => Guerrillas In Our Midst
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => GUERRILLAS IN OUR MIDST presents a savvy exploration of the machinations of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980s, and brings the Guerrilla Girls to the screen. This anonymous group of art terrorists has succeeded in putting racism and sexism on the agenda in the art-world since 1985, and their witty and creative tactics have changed the face of political and cultural activism. Interviews with key figures in the Manhattan art scene, record-breaking auction sales, exhibition openings and interviews with the Guerrillas Girls themselves combine to highlight how the myth of the heroic male painter is perpetuated.
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    [title] => The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => From her innovative short works to her critically acclaimed feature debut DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, the films of Julie Dash have broken new cinematic ground and redefined black women's images on screen.  In this wide-ranging interview, Dash talks about her background, development and approach to movie making, as well as the struggles, victories and interdependence of African American women filmmakers.  Excerpts from early films and DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, the dramatic feature about different generations of South Carolina sea islanders which has thrilled audiences across the nation, underscore the originality of this immensely gifted artist.
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    [title] => Japanese American Women
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => The stereotype of the polite, docile, exotic Asian woman is shattered in this documentary in which a dozen women speak about their experiences as part of the "model minority." JAPANESE AMERICAN WOMEN explores the ambivalent feelings the women have both towards Japan and the United States. The underlying theme is the burden of being different, of being brought up “one of a kind” as opposed to growing up part of an ethnic community. An uneasy feeling prevails of being neither Japanese nor American, and the documentary ultimately becomes the story of Japanese American women and their search for a sense of place.
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    [title] => Thank God I'm a Lesbian
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    [year_released] => 1992
    [text] => THANK GOD I'M A LESBIAN is an uplifting and entertaining documentary about the diversity of lesbian identities.  Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Lee Pui Ming, Becki Ross, Julia Creet, LaVerne Monette, Sarah Schulman, Chris Bearchell, Chris Phibbs, Christine Delphy and Jeanelle Laillou speak frankly and articulately about issues ranging from coming out, racism, bisexuality, and SM, to the evolution of the feminist and lesbian movements, outing and compulsory heterosexuality.  Inclusive of various and often contradictory points of view, THANK GOD I'M A LESBIAN successfully proposes an alternate vision of self and community that is realistic and positive.  This fast-paced documentary was edited by Geraldine Peroni who was nominated for an Academy Award for The Player.
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