WOMENS SILVER SCREEN ROAD SHOW Gazette #4

November 2013

ARIEL dougherty
lectures on a wide variety of feminist media issues:
+ community + funding + ensemble + aesthetics + news + theory + audience + policy

+ especially narrative, feminist films created in communities & feminist film history

We are in danger of loosing the feminist films of the 1970s - Kay Armatage, @ TIFF13 (vimeo.com/77109278) Jackie Shearer, 1993, Available Visions conference - Film has no political merit gathering dust on the shelf. It was only in interaction with an audience that it had power. eminist visions on film are essential for a gender justice, social transformation. In the 1970s women leaped into production with whole heart. Film schools had hardly begun. Women Make Movies from its roots in city-wide womens liberation movement meetings, played a unique role and produced works unlike most of the films of the period. We believed that community-based media was a vital, and necessary, venue for that change, where the most disenfranchised are emboldened to tell their own stories. Unconstrained by convention they are new creators breaking out the media from stultified constraints of commercialization, time and domination.

ARIEL is going on the road to bring the films by girls and women made in community based
workshops to a new audience. YOU! She is collecting a repertoire of works from a variety of workshops. Her knowledge of 1960s workshops through to today (12+ new girl/women/LGBT programs have formed since 2000), while always expanding, is extensive, and unheralded.
@ What were the hopes and dreams (and fears) of girls/women in the 1960s/1970s as shown though their films? How does this compare with films and dreams by girls/women/trans today? @ How do we build a feminist cinema with community principles, and bring this work to wide audiences? @ What is role of feminist cinema in building solidarity around intersectionality, fighting patriarchy, etc.? @ What is the unique purpose of narrative works in these processes? What are all of our responsibilities to see that more feminist narratives are produced and enjoyed by a large audience?

ARIEL is one of three co-founders of Women Make Movies in 1969. With Sheila Paige she incorporated WMM in 1972 into a community-based film-teaching workshop for women and started distribution as a vital earned-income arm. At the forefront of creating novel media she has been a leader/innovator of such projects as International VIDEOLETTERS; TARTS: Teaching Artists to Reach Technological Savvy; and Cultural Democracy/Ecology. She has directed or produced over fifty film/tv works, most recently Women Art Revolution (2010) by Lynn Hershman. Since 2007 over 30 articles/reports of hers have been published. In the 80s she was development director at Womens Studio Workshop and consulted with organizations like WARM, Heresies, Media Network and Local TV. A savvy advocate, she has mentored 100s of filmmakers.

HEALTHCARING (32m, 16mm, 1976). Now a classic, the film has been an anchor in WMMs distribution since its release. Paige and Dougherty who produced the film with filmmakers that evolved from the WMM workshop KNEW that fresh, community perspectives could enrich and deepen documentaries on a variety of womens concerns. (available on VHS) BECKYs STORY (5 mins, 2006) director, Lynn Estomin. Via quirky animation and Ritsu Katsumata's funky music humor and punch are added to this all too familiar tale. Abstinence-Only Sexuality Education is examined from the point of view of one teen mother. Becky tells her story in her own words -- from her virginity pledge at church to juggling motherhood, work and school. WOMENS HAPPY TIME COMMUNE (47m, 16mm, 1972) director, editor Sheila Paige; camera & executive producer, Ariel Dougherty; sound, Delores Bargowski. In this loosely knit non-scripted feminist Western, women discuss religion, banding together, the pros and cons of living with men or women. The raw ideas of early women's lib that bubble up in WHTC are equally vibrant today. A MINOR ALTERCATION (30m, 16mm,1977) director, Jackie Shearer. A fight between an African American and a white schoolgirl in Boston is explored in all its complexity in this fact-based drama that evolved from forced busing. (available on VHS) SWEET BANANAS (32m, 1973, color) director, camera, editor Ariel Dougherty; sound Cabell Smith; Producer Sheila Paige. Vignettes of a go-go dancer, an industry weaver and puppet maker meld as the women gather in a fabricated story. traces the contrasting lives of working class and upper class women, who end up all getting along. - Ann Kaplan LUNA TUNE (2mm, color, 1977) director, animator, Carol Clement. 84 year-old Lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reads from her work at a spirituality conference. In an impressionistic, dance like form, this delicate sand animation illuminates the poem. Extracted from a longer film, Musereel: Tapestry of Woman Spirit, a funky rendition from a womans spirituality conference in Boston, 1976. Stay tuned as ARIEL builds on the collection! Still in process of obtaining from WMM: FEAR, DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, KATY KELLY, THE TRIALS OF ALICE CRIMMINS (Theyve been in cardboard boxes for 30+ years) And gathers works from other women-run community media organizations !!

BOOK ARIEL NOW ArielCamera@gmail.com @MediaEquity 575-740-5868 facebook.com/SilverscreenRoadshow

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Ariel

doughertY
h 575.894.1844 c 575.740.5868 ArielCamera@gmail.com @MediaEquity scribd.com/ariel_dougherty

Teacher / Maker / Mentor

1580 Caballo Road Truth or Consequences, New Mexico 87901-3013 facebook.com/SilverscreenRoadshow

@ intersections of ! womens rights ! media/culture ! policy !

DEVELOPMENT:
2012

MEDIA, CULTURE, & COMMUNITY Lecture: Feminist Media A Part of Life: The Next Forty Years, Mar 5, The New School, NY, NY Text and images: http://bit.ly/16peHRS Basis for Womens Silverscreen Roadshow (revision of WMM 1971 project) and a book. Has lectured widely from Aspen Institute to New Community Cinema; Princeton University to Frauen und Film 2011 Co-Chair, Media & Technology Task Force, National Council of Womens Organizations, creation of first major womens media policy in decades, effects 12,000,000 strong women membership. 2007 Initiator & workshop presenter at Womens Funding Network (twice); Take Root; Allied Media Conf; Women, Acton & the Media; etc. Great comments on one @ FRIDA blog: http://bit.ly/JBYlbW 2007-13 Initiator, National Project Director, Media Equity Collaborative, building support for feminist/gender justice media organizations and producers across the U.S scribd.com/ariel_dougherty 1969 Advancing Feminist Cultural & Alternative Media as Director, Development Director, Board Member, Advocate of over 3 dozen organizations and projects: among them Sierra Community Council media initiative; Local TV (87-95); National Association of Artists Organizations (82-86); TARTS /Teaching Artists to Reach Technological Savvy (84-86); Survey & Report on Womens Arts Organizations (81-85); Womens Studio Workshop (79-86); Greene County Council on the Arts (7779); Women Make Movies (69-79; 87-95); Young Filmakers Foundation (69-71). 1972 1970 Writer of 60+ published articles, reports & position papers, most on feminist media and culture appearing in Congressional Record to Womens Media Center; and Al Jezeera to Media Report to Women. One example: SAFE PLANET: A GUIDE ON ENVIRONMENTAL FILM & VIDEO (92) for Media Network. Producer/ director/ camera/ editor/ crew on 100+ productions:. Among them- The Recycling Show (91-93); Cultural Democracy/Ecology (87-920; Women Art Revolution (06-10) responsible for a single $100K contribution; International VIDEOLETTERS (75-77); dozens of WMM workshop films, Healthcaring (74-76)

PRODUCTIONS, PUBLICATIONS, WRITINGS & ART

TEACHING:

ARTS IN EDUCATION 1968 Teacher or Developer of Arts in Ed programs: Starting with student-teaching at East Harlem Block Schools has taught mostly film/video skills to thousands of youth, teachers, mothers, women prisoners and community members via Loft Film & Theatre (69); Young Filmakers Foundation (69-71); 92ndt St Y (71-72); Metropolitan Museum of Art (70-72); Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (73); Women Make Movies (72-77); Greene County Council for the Arts (77-79); Greene-Columbia Count Community College (78-80); Womens Studio Workshop (79-86); Local TV (87-95); Sierra Community Council (05-07). 1991 1969 1965 Certificate in Ecology, Long Island University, Southampton, NY BA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY HS Diploma, The Western High School, Washington, DC (now Duke Ellington School of the Arts) Co-Designer, voluntary cleanup & adaptive reuse of late 1940s fuel depot into a work and home site, Truth or Consequences, NM Bought & Sold: fine arts and furniture, late 18th to late 20th century Studied landscape design : native species, non-toxic, & organic plantings Raised 50% of food : organic garden, small piggery & apiary Designed & Built 11' x 24' attached solar greenhouse, with mass stone wall Independent Senior Year in Indonesia, lived with a US AID family, year of living dangerously Registered Congressional Lobbyist, High School Students for Better Education, secured equitable funds from US Congress for all District of Columbia Public School students

EDUCATION

LIFE EXPERIENCE
1997-07 1993-05 1989-93 1976-86 1982-84 1964-65 1960-64

REFERENCES

Available on request