Directed by Mirra Bank • 1974 • United States
Yudie, an elderly Lower East Side lifer, looks back at a life lived on her own terms.
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Chris and Bernie
Directed by Bonnie Friedman and Deborah Shaffer • 1975 • United States
Two young, frustrated single mothers join forces to make a new kind of family unit for themselves and their children.
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Inside Women Inside
Directed by Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio • 1978 • United States
Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio offer a rare look at the degradation faced by women in prison, interviewing women who suffer daily within a system that disregards their humanity and neglects their basic needs.
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Soft Fiction
Directed by Chick Strand • 1979 • United States
Made in collaboration with its subjects, Chick Strand’s masterpiece SOFT FICTION gives five women the space to, in Strand’s words, perform “an exorcism of [an] experience.” Strand captures the slippery, vivid memories of erotic fantasy, confusing s...
