Joanie 4 Jackie
9 Episodes
Indie iconoclast Miranda July first stepped from the realm of performance art into film with her pioneering JOANIE 4 JACKIE project, in which she curated and distributed feminist video “chain letters” of underground movies made by women across the country. Originally dubbed BIG MISS MOVIEOLA, the project began with a pamphlet that read, “A challenge and a promise: Lady, you send me your movie and I’ll send you the latest Big Miss Moviola Chainletter Tape.” This selection gathers nine of the eclectic shorts that July compiled, along with a 2008 introduction by Shauna McGarry.
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19:51Episode 1
Transeltown
Episode 1
Directed by Myra Paci • 1992 • United States
Starring Myra Paci, Carter Burwell, Dina EmersonDante transported to Times Square: a morbid and tender love story begins when a lonely girl drags home the naked body of a comatose, genital-less blonde woman.
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20:28Episode 3
The Slow Escape
Episode 3
Directed by Sativa Peterson • 1998 • United States
In this film, made by Sativa Peterson in 1997, the narrator—a young radio DJ—contemplates the disappearance of twenty-three-year-old Pamela Ferguson, last seen leaving her job as a waitress at the Entré Restaurant in Winslow, Arizona.
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12:18Episode 4
No Place Like Home #1 and #2
Episode 4
Directed by Karen Yasinsky • 1999 • United States
Over the course of these two stop-motion films, made by Karen Yasinsky in 1999, a woman—with the help of a pair of ruby-red slippers—delves into her fantasies and confronts good and evil before returning safely to the reality of her life.
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08:00Episode 6
Gigi (from 9 to 5)
Episode 6
Directed by Joanne Nucho • 2001 • United States
Starring Emily Bartha, Daniel Fetherston, Lauren KerchnerA young woman’s quotidian routine—from waking up to going to work to returning home—is enlivened in Joanne Nucho’s 2001 musical.
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28:05Episode 7
Ophelia’s Opera
Episode 7
Directed by Abiola Abrams • 2001 • United States
Starring Taqiyya Haden, Malcolm Foster Smith, Titilayo NgwenyaAn artist uses a spell to free herself from an abusive relationship in this experimental revenge tale told through rap, song, Cantonese, Shakespearean verse, sign language, and Jamaica...
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04:42Episode 8
untitled video
Episode 8
Directed by Sujin Lee • 2002 • United States
Memories and fragments of stories enter into dialogue with each other as filmmaker Sujin Lee processes the death of her grandmother and the end of childhood.
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08:54Episode 9
La Llorona
Episode 9
Directed by Stephanie Saint Sanchez • 2003 • United States
Stephanie Saint Sanchez offers a comedic, revisionist retelling of the story of the legendary “weeping woman” of Mexican folklore.