Directed by Roberta Cantow • 1981 • United States
Through oral histories and images of clothes crisscrossing backyards, Roberta Cantow looks at laundry as a form of folk art, a fraught social signifier, and a medium for women to reflect on the joys, pains, and ambivalences of household chores.
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Suzanne, Suzanne
Directed by Camille Billops and James Hatch • 1982 • United States
One of the many films that Camille Billops and James Hatch made centering on Billops’s family, SUZANNE, SUZANNE presents a devastating portrait of the artist’s niece, haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child and the passivity...
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Audience
Directed by Barbara Hammer • 1982 • United States
An incredible document of the LGBT film scene in the early 1980s (as well as artist Barbara Hammer’s off-the-charts charisma), AUDIENCE finds Hammer working in a more straightforward documentary mode than usual. Hammer interviews her largely lesb...
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The Ties That Bind
Directed by Su Friedrich • 1984 • United States
Su Friedrich creates a dialogue between past and present, pairing her mother’s recollections of growing up in Germany during the rise and fall of Nazism with images of contemporary Germany and the artist’s current life in Chicago. The result is an ...
