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61) Naomi Campbell
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Blending documentary and fiction, the film follows a poor transgender woman in Chile who hears about a plastic surgery TV competition. She decides to try out, to pursue her gender reassignment surgery. There, she meets an enigmatic woman who hopes to emulate fashion icon Naomi Campbell. The film gains gravitas through its unforced look at class, race and gender.. Official Selection at Outfest and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation.. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two children, further her education, and heal herself from the wounds of sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Kind...
63) Discontent
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1916.
Language
English
Description
Weber also provided the script for this short family drama, which follows a discontented Civil War veteran who leaves the old soldier’s home and moves in with his wealthy nephew. Focusing on the tensions that arise as a result, DISCONTENT is an incisive exploration of change, family dynamics, class, and happiness. Music by Judith Rosenberg.
64) Papageno
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
An example of Reiniger’s animated music films based on opera, PAPAGENO is filled with impeccable attention to detail. Papageno, a birdcatcher from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” idles his time with his bird companions, fights an undulating snake, and finds love and familial happiness through delicate and delightful visuals that parallel the rhythm and expressivity of the music.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1922.
Language
English
Description
Considered one of Dulac’s most feminist films, it is also a crucial step in her continuing de-emphasis of traditional narrative structures in favor of visual association. This impressionist film offers a bleak portrait of marriage and its constraining effects on the woman, while vividly externalizing her dreams of liberation as only the cinematic medium can. Music by Judith Rosenberg.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb's edict that anything too safe is not action, these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb's movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky. Revealing the passions...
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Profiling the lives of three young transmen of color, this short doc explores what life is like living as a black man, when no one knows you are transgender, and how each man perceives his own journey with gender after many years of being presumed as a cisgender man. Regent Park Film Festival - Documentary Institute of Canada Award Translations Seattle Film Festival - Best Documentary Short.
68) Spook Sport
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1939.
Language
English
Description
SPOOK SPORT announces itself as a new kind of film ballet comprised of “color, music, and movement,” and is a lively interpretation of a night at a graveyard where colored shapes representing bats, ghosts, and spooks jump, shimmy, bounce, glide, and spiral across the frame. Bute hired animator Norman McLaren to draw these forms directly onto the filmstrip. Filmed in two-color Cinecolor.
69) The Joy of Life
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Multitalented performance artist Harriet "Harry" Dodge (By Hook or By Crook, Cecil B. Demented) brings to life this innovative story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. Against a backdrop of stunning landscape cinematography, this bold, lyrical voiceover film evolves from lesbian lust story to inventive documentary; delving into explicit descriptions of lesbian sexuality and offering up a quick look at Frank Capra's...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
SERVICE highlights the resourcefulness of seven amazing women who represent the first wave of mothers, daughters and sisters returning home from the frontless wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. Portraying the courage of women veterans as they transition from active duty to their civilian lives, this powerful film describes the horrific traumas they have faced, the inadequate care they often receive on return, and the large and small accomplishments they...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
More women worked in film during its first two decades than at any time since. Unfortunately, many early women filmmakers have been largely written out of film history, their contributions undervalued. This necessary and timely collection highlights the work of 14 of early cinema’s most innovative and influential women directors, re-writing and celebrating their rightful place in film history. International in scope, this groundbreaking collection...
72) The Stolen Heart
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1934.
Language
English
Description
Based on a fable by Ernst Keienburg, this short drama exhibits an entrancing sense of space. As a story about a monstrous man who steals a town’s musical instruments, scholars argue that this is an anti-Nazi allegory. When the musical instruments come to life, Reiniger’s playful silhouette animation celebrates the power of music as joy overcomes evil.
73) Parabola
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1937.
Language
English
Description
Produced by Bute’s company Expanding Cinema and made in collaboration with Ted Nemeth and sculptor Rutherford Boyd, PARABOLA is a celebration of film’s ability to create new ways of seeing the forms around us. Creating juxtaposition between light/shadow, stasis/motion, and form/music, the black-and-white short invites us to see the parabolic curve, or “nature’s poetry,” as both invigorating and beguiling.
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Paul Wears Dresses follows the struggles of Stefonknee Wolscht, a transgender woman trying to rebuild her life. Losing her home and her family, Stefonknee gives a firsthand account of the many challenges transgender people face. Stefenknee Wolscht was the quintessential working man. He was a married father of 7, an upstanding member of the Catholic Church and a successful car mechanic. In his 40’s Stefonknee risked everything to transition from...
75) My Feminism
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
MY FEMINISM is a critically important look at second wave feminism in the 1990’s, a time rife with anti-feminist backlash. Powerful interviews with feminist leaders including bell hooks, Gloria Steinem, and Urvsahi Vaid are intercut with documentary sequences to engagingly explore the past and present and future status of the women's movement. Discussing the unique contributions of second wave feminism, they explore their racial, economic and ideological...
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A video essay exploring the frequency and meaning of Vanity Tables in a wide variety of Sirk movies. Is it a device that traps and keeps women in an artificial world with a limited point of view? Or is it a gateway to the past, and the future, and a distorted but nevertheless real vision of the roles that woman are forced to play in society?
77) Harlequin
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1931.
Language
English
Description
Reiniger had already completed her full-length masterpiece THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926) when she made this animated tale of romance at the age of 32. A love story set to a Baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet rendered through exquisitely detailed silhouettes.
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
This is quite a story. For there are some stories that are so individually significant that they speak for an entire area of history. Imagine trying to become the first woman doctor, or being a slave woman who helped lead over three hundred others to freedom, or daring simply to write of an equality and a freedom that seemed so natural and yet was left out of the Declaration of Independence. Within the individual stories of the progress and accomplishments...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1933.
Language
English
Description
Taking 18 months to complete, this dizzyingly surreal pinscreen animation interprets music by Mussorgsky as interplay between shadow/light, permanence/impermanence, motion/stillness, human/animal, and night/day. Parker and Alexeieff slowly created the imagery for this dream-like world by constantly adjusting the pins on the board and then filming what their shadows generated.
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Babushkas of Chernobyl journeys into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone several decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster in April 1986. The tightly regulated 1000 square mile Dead Zone remains one of the most radioactively contaminated places on Earth, complete with military border guards.. Surprisingly, a defiant, spirited group of elderly women scratches out an existence in this lethal landscape. The resilient babushkas are the last survivors...
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