Our Bodies Our Business
Dec 01, 2016A documentary collage of sex worker activist interventions created from footage captured by HIV/AIDS activist at the Fifth International AIDS Conference in Montreal in 1989.
Carol Leigh
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Mutantes
Dec 21, 2009Constitué d’une série d'entretiens réalisés aux États-Unis, à Paris ou à Barcelone auprès d’artistes, théoriciennes, activistes queer, et de documents d’archives autour de l’action politique des travailleuses sexuelles et de performances d’un nouveau genre, « Mutantes » dessine les contours d’un féminisme, dont on a peu parlé en France, qui revendique une liberté sexuelle totale, à l’instar du mouvement féministe « pro-sexe » né dans les années 80 aux États-Unis.
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Ni Coupables Ni Victimes
Dec 01, 2005"Ni Coupables, ni victimes" ("Not Guilty, Not Victims") is a polyphonic conversation gathering the words of some of the protagonists at the European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration, Brussels (2005). They speak of the complexity and nuances of the sex industry and their lives: the challenges and the struggles of being a sex worker in Europe today, the repressive policies affecting their lives, and the strategies of resistance enabling them to do their work, build their desires and plan their futures.
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Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop
Jan 01, 1992A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play.
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The Celluloid Bordello
Sep 27, 2019Since the dawn of cinema, sex workers have been portrayed (mostly negatively) by filmmakers. With equal parts historical overview, critique, and homage, this eye-opening film lets real-life dommes, escorts, porn stars and hustlers tell you which films they love and which they hate, which get it right and which miss the mark, and how perpetuating stereotypes in media affects real peoples' lives.
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Whore Culture
Dec 31, 1993Documentary about the 1993 "Whore Culture: A Festival of Sex Work" event in Toronto.
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Women of Vision
Aug 03, 1998Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25. They are black, white, Puerto Rican, Yugoslavian, Asian American, biracial. They are straight, gay and bisexual. What they share is a need to express their own interpretations of what American culture is and could be and a belief that this work is made particularly powerful through the media.
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Compulsive Practice
Dec 01, 2016For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS commissioned COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS. This hour-long video program was distributed internationally to museums, art institutions, schools and AIDS organizations.
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Mother's Mink
Jan 01, 2009Animated comedy starring famous prostitute, Carol Leigh (also known as Scarlot Harlot) and her mom, about Leigh's efforts to obtain respectability as an artist, and to secure funding for a video about her mother's mink. In a parallel tale, Leigh's mom (and co-star) Augusta reminisces about how she "saved and suffered" to buy a mink stole to impress her mother.
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Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitution
Jan 01, 1991This documentary of the 1989 World Whores' Summit in San Francisco features prostitutes and activists from around the globe discussing human rights as they effect prostitutes.
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Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitution
Jan 01, 1991This documentary of the 1989 World Whores' Summit in San Francisco features prostitutes and activists from around the globe discussing human rights as they effect prostitutes.
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An experimental documentary, this work is unique as it portrays the injustices of the California prison system as seen through the eyes of HIV+ women incarcerated in this system. "Blind Eye To Justice" was named by Twillah Wallace, a current inmate and HIV+ woman. Animation and found footage create a powerful montage that evokes the atmosphere in women's prisons--the violations as well as the hope and courage of prison activists who fight quietly, and from the inside. As well as documenting the experience of many women including Patti Contrerras, Blind Eye To Justice educates audiences by providing an overview of the issues of human rights for HIV+ women caught in the criminal justice system.
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Whore Culture
Dec 31, 1993Documentary about the 1993 "Whore Culture: A Festival of Sex Work" event in Toronto.
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Flesh Histories
Jan 01, 1992A diverse program of films and videos by various artists who challenge conventional representations of gender, family and sexuality, curated by Tom Kalin for Drift Distribution.
Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real
Feb 02, 1999Documentary film diary tracing Annie Sprinkle's and society’s 30 year evolution throughout the sexual revolution. Take a look at the history of porn via Annie's filmography.
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Mother's Mink
Jan 01, 2009Animated comedy starring famous prostitute, Carol Leigh (also known as Scarlot Harlot) and her mom, about Leigh's efforts to obtain respectability as an artist, and to secure funding for a video about her mother's mink. In a parallel tale, Leigh's mom (and co-star) Augusta reminisces about how she "saved and suffered" to buy a mink stole to impress her mother.
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