The two fiercely independent, idiosyncratic films made by Juleen Compton in the 1960s are vital works of bold, against-all-odds feminist art from a time when virtually no American women were afforded the opportunity to work in narrative feature filmmaking. Originally an actor who studied with Lee Strasberg, the free-spirited Compton self-financed STRANDED (in which she also stars) and THE PLASTIC DOME OF NORMA JEAN, allowing her complete creative freedom in bringing these stylistically freewheeling, New Wave–inspired stories about women’s struggles for self-determination to the screen. Legitimately liberated in both content and form, they reveal a titanic talent who, in a more just world, would have enjoyed a long and flourishing career behind the camera.