Kahlo
Directors Eila Hershon, Roberto Guerra, and Wibke Von Bonin
Year 1983
Running Time 62 minutes
DistributorPublic Media Home Vision
Comments
Frida Kahlo lived and worked at the center of the Mexican renaissance in the
1920s and 1930s. At the age of 16 Frida was involved in a road accident that
left her in constant pain and subject to a series of operations. Her paintings
reflect her constant struggle with her ravaged body. At the same time she was
hailed as a surrealist by the artist Andre Breton, who described her as
"playing alternately at being absolutely pure and absolutely
pernicious." For her husband, the cubist and muralist Diego Rivera, her
painting "was the greatest proof of the renaissance of the art of
Mexico."
Khush
Director Pratibha Parmar
Year 1991
Running Time 24 minutes
Distributor Women Make Movies
Comments
"Khush" means ecstatic pleasure in Urdu. For South Asian lesbians
and gay men in Britain, North America, and India (where homosexuality is still
illegal) the term captures the blissful intricacies of being queer and of
color. Inspiring testimonies bridge geographical differences to locate shared
experiences of isolation and exoticization but also the unremitting joys and
solidarity of being "khush." Accentuated by beautifully lit dream
sequences, dance segments and a dazzlingly sensuous soundtrack, this uplifting
documentary conveys the exhilaration of a culturally rooted experience of
sexuality.
Komaroff. Discovering Women: DNA Detective, Molecular Biologist Lydia
Villa-Komaroff
Producer Elizabeth Arledge
Year 1995
Subject Documentary
Language English
Running Time 60 minutes
DistributorFilms for the Humanities and Sciences
Comments
Studying the brain's hidden mysteries presents Villa-Komaroff an associate
professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School, with an exciting
challenge. In the program, Villa-Komaroff and her colleagues research a protein
which she believes may be implicated in a rare and devastating condition called
megalenchephaly, in which the fetal brain grows abnormally large. The profile
offers a meditation on the value of failure as a tool in science and a vision
of a successful woman scientist.
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