Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1980 • France
For a French television series about grandmothers, Chantal Akerman interviews elderly women who survived the Shoah, including her own mother, whose experience in the Holocaust reverberated throughout the artist’s life and work.
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I Am Wanda
Directed by Katja Raganelli • 1980 • United States
Starring Barbara LodenThis documentary by Katja Raganelli, filmed in 1980, features an interview with WANDA director Barbara Loden and brief interviews with cinematographer Nicholas T. Proferes and acting teacher Paul Mann.
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Land Makar
Directed by Margaret Tait • 1981 • United Kingdom
Starring Mary Graham SinclairMargaret Tait follows her neighbor Mary Graham Sinclair, a poet (or “makar”) of the land, through the seasons as she works her farm.
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Clotheslines
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.
