Film Categories: Work by Women

  • Sand

    “Sandpaintings” combines cutout, computer animation and live-action in an exploration of the meanings of symbols in our culture. In the film we see two figures (modelled after characters from Navajo sandpaintings) as they take a journey through an artist’s space, searching for their own meaningful symbols.

  • Sappho

    Using the sixth century B.C. lyricist’s poetry, a group of women unwrap the papyrus gauze of the lesbian goddess and bring her to life. Made by Barbara and six students, together at the Women’s Building in Los Angeles.

  • Scenes de la Vie Francaise: Avignon

    Four scenes of Avignon: a park, a bus terminus, Rue des Teinturiers, and a town square are filmed at different times from an identical viewpoint. The material taken at diverse periods appears interwoven in the final print.

  • Scenes de la Vie Francaise: La Ciotat

    Whereas throughout the film “Scenes de la vie francaise: Paris” the image is formed by means of relatively long sections recorded on different dates, in “Scenes de la vie Francaise: La Ciotat” the image showing the port, the dry docks, the workers leaving the ship yards, a tanker launched, fishermen and the beach, rests on the interweaving of short moments. Hence in the case of this film the configuration is composed of two distinct but closely situated durations.

  • Scenes de la Vie Francaise: Paris

    “Scenes de la vie francaise: Paris” is one of a series of films: Arles, Paris, La Ciotat, Avignon. All four films have a similar organizational procedure in that their material is woven together on an ordinary printer according to a certain pattern. The problems that arise are tackled, however, in a slightly different way in the case of each film. In “Scenes de la vie Francaise: Paris” several places – Jardin du Luxembourg, Place de la Republique, Rue St. Antoine, Canal St. Martin, Place de la Bastille – are presented by the means of a composition of frames recorded at…

  • Schizy

    “Schizy” is Barbara Hammer’s first film and is about her own coming-out process.

  • School

    A bad movie about a bad school girl. The kind of spanking-fetish film Disney would have made.

  • Scientific Girl, The

    “The Scientific Girl” explores the “outbreak” of 1940’s Hollywood films featuring mentally ill heroines – Olivia de Havilland in “The Snake Pit,” for example. By tracing the treatment of hysterical women in the 1890s, our heroine, the Scientific Girl, reveals how women’s problems have been stereotyped and how the “evil-seductress effect” works. “An intelligent attempt to span generations and cinematically tie together the treatment of hysteria in women as a form of entertainment…an intriguing subject.” – Cinema Canada

  • Seadrift

    “Seadrift” is based on a story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” by H.P. Lovecraft, and was shot partially in Marblehead Mass. Each section represents a synthesis of the various aspects and moods of the story. The sum total of the fragments expresses the atmosphere of the whole. With Mike Kuchar, Robert Cowan, Donna Kerness, Walter Gutman and others.

  • Searching for My Mother’s Garden

    Partially shot in rural Czecho-Slovakia, this film investigates the phenomenon of no longer being rooted to a motherland, yet being tied to one’s origins.