ALL THE GIRLS WITH CAMERAS IN THEIR HEADS:
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
women's retrospective

Co-presented by the Austin Film Society, the Center for Women's Studies, the Gender and Sexuality Area of the Department of Radio-Television Film, and the Hotel San Jose.

1.	RE-WORLDLY Total Running Time: 64 min. 8pm, Sept. 14 The Hideout

RE-ASSEMBLAGE
by Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1982, 40 min. 16mm, color.
Women are the focus but not the object of Minh-ha’s influential first film, a complex visual study of the women in Rural Senegal.

ANOTHER WORLDLY
by Leslie Thornton, 2000, 24 min. 16mm, color/b/w.
Ecstatic culture jamming: a cross cultural critique of the original of dance forms from a space beyond time.

2.	THE FOURTH DIMENSION by Trinh T. Min-ha, 2000, 87 min. video, color. 8pm, Sept 15 The Hideout Through the ‘rituals’ of daily life and art in Japanese culture, Time is explored and experienced in video imaging.

3.	PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL by Leslie Thornton, 105 min, 1985-2001. 8pm, Sept 16 The Hideout 2pm, Sept 23 The Hideout Two children play house in an apocalyptic landscape. They’re the last inhabitants on earth. He is Jack Nicholson. She is Amelia Earhart.

THE EPISODES:

PEGGY AND FRED IN HELL: THE PROLOGUE
1985, 21 min. 16mm, b/w

PEGGY AND FRED IN KANSAS
1987, 11 min. video, b/w

PEGGY AND FRED AND PETE
1988, 23 min. video, sepia

[DUNG SMOKE ENTERS THE PALACE]
1989, 16 min, b/w, 16mm film and video

INTRODUCTION TO THE SO-CALLED DUCK FACTORY
1993, 7 min. video, b/w

WHIRLING
1996, 2 min. 16mm, b/w

THE PROBLEM SO FAR
1996, 7 min. 16mm/video, b/w

CHIMP FOR NORMAL SHORT
1999, 7 min. 16mm, sepia

BEDTIME
2000, 4 min. video, b/w

HAVE A NICE DAY ALONE
2001, 7 min. video, b/w

4.	MOLECULAR DETOURS Total Running Time: 72 min. 3:30pm, Sept. 22 The Hidout

MUTE
by Greta Snider, 1991, 14 min. 16mm. color.
A male’s voice-over declaration of his obsession with a 15-year-old, unable to speak, with her interior thoughts expressed via subtitles.

THE VISION MACHINE
by Peggy Ahwesh, 1997, 20 min. 16mm. color.
A film essay on the feminine speaking subject and the power dynamics of transmitting and receiving a joke.

ALMAS GEMELAS
by Ximena Cuevas, 1999, 2 min. video, color.
(excerpt from DORMIMUNDO)
Her mirror has two faces.

THE FANCY
by Elizabeth Subrin, 2000, 36 min. video, color.
"…a dragonfly would sew a girl’s lips together if she ever lied…" or, an "experimental biography" of the late photographer Francesca Woodman.

5.	DEVIL IN THE FLESH Total Running Time: 66 min. 7:30pm, Sept. 22 The Hideout

SWALLOW
by Elizabeth Subrin, 1995, 28 min. video, color.
"…There were no words for it but I knew what she was talking about….", or, an autobiographical account of female adolescence.

JENNIFER WHERE ARE YOU?
by Leslie Thornton, 1981, 10 min. 16mm, color.
Young girls use lipstick over-liberally and thus block out unwanted noises.

EL DIABLO EN LA PIEL
by Ximena Cuevas, 1998, 5 min., video, color.
(excerpt from "Dormimundo".) Self-inflicted pain has healing properties when one is consumed by obsession.

BLOOD STORY
by Greta Snider, 1990, 3 min. 16mm, color.
Womb envy vs. womb power.

MARTINA'S PLAYHOUSE
by Peggy Ahwesh, 1989, 20 min. Super 8mm, color.
Martina is playing all the parts in front, behind and inside the camera.

6.	LET US EAT, PISS, FUCK, COME, SHIT, SPIT! Total Running Time: 97 minutes. 7:30pm, Sept. 21 The Hideout

THE COLOR OF LOVE
by Peggy Ahwesh, 1994, 10 min. 16mm, color.
Starting with a deteriorated, hopelessly inept porn film from the ‘70s, desire and eroticism decays to the point of the sublime.

CAMA
by Ximena Cuevas, 1998, 2 min. video, color.
(excerpt from DORMIMUNDO)
A shivering, matrimonial bed with many stories to tell.

OUR GAY BROTHERS
by Greta Snider, 1993, 10 min., 16mm, color.
Gay males’ response to the female anatomy.

BABA DE PERICO
by Ximena Cuevas, 2000, 2 min. video, color.
ECU on pleasure.

NEST OF TENS
by Miranda July, 2000, 27 min., video, color.
Children and a developmentally disabled adult operate control panels made out of paper, lists, monsters, and their own bodies.

HELP
by Ximena Cuevas, 2000, 1 min. video, color.
"Ah, look at all these lonely people…"

THE DEADMAN
by Peggy Ahwesh (co-directed by Keith Sanborn), 1990, 40 min. 16mm, b/w.
Based on Bataille’s story "Le Mort" the film charts the adventures of Marie who after the death of her lover sets in motion a scabrous free-form orgy before returning to the house to die.

LA PUERTA
by Ximena Cuevas, 2001, 5 min. video, color.
What happens when you step into the fire?

7.	THE MULTIPLICITY OF YOU Total Running Time: 90min. 7:15, Sept. 18 The Hideout 5pm, Sept. 21 The Hideout

THE AMATEURIST
by Miranda July, 1998, 14min. video, color.
A ‘professional’ woman has monitored an ‘amateur’ woman every day on video for years.

CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
by Ximena Cuevas, 1999, 5 min. video, color.
(excerpt from DORMIMUNDO)
A Mexican artist prepares herself for her unavoidable meeting with John Hanhardt, curator at the Guggenheim Museum of Art.

SHE PUPPET
by Peggy Awesh, 2001, 15 min. video, color.
Homage and investigation of the Tomb Raider video game featuring the busty, virtual superstar Lara Croft.

OH, CHINA, OH
by Leslie Thornton, 1983, 3 min. 16mm, b/w.
Animated eloge to China, our sister.

SHULIE
by Elisabeth Subrin, 1997, 37 min. 16mm, color.
"No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper" or a shot-by shot recreation of a 1967 suppressed documentary about the radical feminist Shulamith Firestone.

HARD CORE HOME MOVIE
by Greta Snider, 6 min. 16mm, b/w.
Two words: Punk Rock!

ATLANTA
by Miranda July, 1996, 10 min. video, color.
An interview with an American swimmer who is about to compete in the 1996 Olympics, and her ultra-supportive mom.

8.	THAT THRESHOLD BETWEEN BODIES, RECORDERS, AND SCANNERS Total Running Time: 57 min. 7:30pm, Sept. 19 The Hideout 10am, Sept. 23 The Hideout

THE MAGIC OF RADIO
by Greta Snider, 2001, 23 min. 16mm, color.
Three pirates and a ham demonstrate the madness and methods of amateur radio broadcasting and testify to the magic of high frequency wave propagation.

. . . OR LOST
by Leslie Thornton, 7 min. 16mm, color.
Sarah Bernhardt meets Thomas Edison and his phonograph in this episode of The Great Invisible.

HAWAII
by Ximena Cuevas, 1999, 2 min. video, color.
(excerpt from DORMIMUNDO)
A sensual moment amongst Mexico City’s bourgeoisie.

NO ZONE
by Greta Snider, 1998, 18 min. 16mm, color/b/w.
A tour through America’s urban outback, peopled by herbalists, thrashers, wanderers and backyard scientists.

STAYING ALIVE
by Ximena Cuevas, 2000, 3 min. video, color.
American Hospital nature morte.

STRANGE SPACE
by Leslie Thornton, 1993, 4 min., video, color.
Hospitalized, actor Ron Vawter contemplates the strangeness of death.