Calamity Jane - Letters to Her Daughter

Calamity Jane - Letters to Her Daughter 1981

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This film is not exactly a documentary; it is a person reading the book while visiting the places where she lived, taking pictures of it in the early eighties. The letters to her daughter, whom she gave away to foster parents in Virginia after Wild Bill had been shot in the back in a saloon in Deadwood, show her in another light: as a woman who clearly understood social taboos of our society and, on one hand, she rejected what society dictated and, on the other, she longed for the bourgeois lifestyle. Many people argued that those were not real, since it was considered to be illiterate. The truth is, she was, and she tried to learn later in life just enough as to write a bare few words, and at times she also employed others in writing things for her.

1981

Axe

Axe 1981

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Story of an axe against nature

1981

Wunderkind

Wunderkind 1981

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The child is still in the baby cot, but Mom and Dad want to make him a great musician. They bring a violinist teacher to the child. The child shoots him with a violin, like a bow. The next teacher is a pianist. Both he and the piano run away from the child. In front of the teacher-singer, the child screams like an Indian. He even breaks the baby's cot. When the carpenter comes to fix it, the child calms down for the first time and helps the master.

1981

Persona non grata

Persona non grata 1981

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Images of war on TV, destruction of the TV, strolling through the night and a colorful, wild car ride through Berlin at night.

1981

Wanwan Kajida Wan

Wanwan Kajida Wan 1981

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A short film about fire safety with a twist involving an alien in his spaceship working with the neighborhood kids.

1981

After the Unveiling

After the Unveiling 1981

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After the Unveiling is a film about change. It is a personal documentary done in diary format of my mother's life immediately following my father's death. It begins with cultural rites proceeding death, that of sitting "shiva," and goes on to record the many daily acts my mother once shared with her husband and now must face alone. Delineated, is the integral place that my mother's religion and culture holds for her, the inevitable influence it has on me, and the resulting conflict that is created for my mother and myself by me selecting a mate from a different religious background.

1981

Transformaciones

Transformaciones 1981

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Transformations is a work in which the author addresses the issue of gender freedom. According to Castillo, the moving images and the unfolding action open a window to free thought and free interpretation of what is seen. "To be or not to be, that is my film," says the author.

1981

Entropy

Entropy 1981

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A college professor is plagued by a recurring dream

1981

Zatrap

Zatrap 1981

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The film Zatrap, shot in Black & White, in 16 MM, and in Creole/French, pinpoints the problems of a departmentalized Martinique, which no longer produces anything and depends on containers to feed its population. A Martinique that was preparing to "give" its daughters and sons to the mother country, metropolitan France, to work for the PTT (post office), the RATP (metro) and the AP (hospitals). At the time, Césaire called this transfer “genocide by substitution”, because at the same time as these young people were going into exile, other inhabitants from France were settling in Martinique.

1981

Lil Picard

Lil Picard 1981

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Lil Picard, the colorful, outrageous art world personality, performance and collage artist, and critic, tells her story, from Belle Epoque Belle, to Berlin Twenties Cabaret dancer, Thirties journalist and refugee from Hitler's Germany, to her long involvement with the art world and its artists. Lil's story, which she tells with Rousseau-like honesty, reflects the history of the times.

1981

We Have Fun Drawing Conclusions

We Have Fun Drawing Conclusions 1981

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Subverting the classic children’s book series "Peter and Jane" in order to reveal how language structures gender roles.

1981