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Baby, It's You (56 min) Friday 9:30 a.m.
While going through the stress of fertility treatment, a couple takes
a close look at family life around them. The filmmaker explores why she
and her siblings never had children. Now, late in life, they are trying
to create families.
Filmakers Library (1997, VHS) Rental: $75.00 Purchase: $295.00
Beauty Before Age: Growing Older in Gay Culture (22
min) Saturday 12:15 p.m.
This award winning documentary explores how a diverse group of gay men,
ages 19 to 77, navigate their fears of becoming old, undesirable, and
alone. The film critically examines the pressure to look young and attractive,
the lack of positive older role models, and the ways in which AIDS intensifies
the fear and process of aging.
New Day Films (1998, VHS) Rental: $65.00 Purchase: $185.00 Colleges/Universities$79.00
Public Libraries and Community Groups
Between the Lines (21 min) Friday 2:30 p.m.
Between the Lines, a visually lyrical, experimental documentary, explores
the practice of self-mutilation through the voices of women who cut themselves,
and looks at the gray areas in women's relationships to their bodies.
By exploring the personal experiences and thoughts of women who have engaged
in sacrification, Between the Lines provides insight into this complex
psychological problem.
Fanlight Productions (1998, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $145.00
Can You See the Color Gray? (54 min) Thursday 4:45
p.m.
This film shows numerous people from diverse social & ethnic backgrounds
as they grapple with probing questions about the racial attitudes or their
feelings about their own ethnicity.
UC Extension - CMIL (1997, VHS) Rental: $75.00 Purchase: $225.00
Carved From the Heart: A Portrait of Grief, Healing
and Community (30 min) Saturday 6:15 p.m.
One man loses his son to a cocaine overdose. Grieving, Stan Marsden, a
Tsimshian wood carver, decides to create a totem pole and invites the
town of Craig, Alaska to help. The project grows; it brings people together,
acknowledges common problems of personal loss, substance abuse and violence
and it promotes healing within the community.
New Day Films (1997, VHS) Rental: $60.00 Purchase: $250.00 Universities/Hospitals$99.00
High Schools and Community Groups
Changing from Inside (42 min) Friday 7:30 p.m.
This documentary provides an eye-opening, and in-depth account of a pilot
mediation program for inmates at a maximum-security jail near Seattle.
UC Extension - CMIL (1998, VHS) Rental: $60.00 Purchase: $175.00
Dark Side of the Moon (25 min) Friday 1:00 p.m.
This moving documentary weaves together the stories of three mentally
disabled men, formerly homeless, who have overcome despair, stigma and
isolation to become valued members of their community. After years of
feeling hopeless and helpless, through their relationships with understanding
friends and community resources, they now help others.
Fanlight Productions (1998, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $195.00
Delirium (23 min) Friday 3:45 p.m.
Defiantly humorous in its tone, Delirium reflects Faber's mother's personal
experience with what has been categorized as "female hysteria." While
never reducing her mother's condition to a single explanation, Delirium
firmly and convincingly links her illness to the historically embattled
position women hold in a patriarchal culture. The tale layers haunting
imagery and humorous iconoclasm, referencing everything from television
episodes of "I Love Lucy", to Charcot's 19th-century photos of female
hysterics. Delirium contends that female mental illness must be understood
within the political/social arena and that in many instances women's reactions
of violence, anger, and depression are indeed sane reactions to abhorrent
situations.
Video Data Bank (1995, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $200.00
Dinner for Two (8 min) Friday 7:00 p.m.
Peace in the rain forest is disrupted when two chameleons get "stuck"
in a conflict, with catastrophic results. Luckily for the lizards, a frog
observing the fracas turns into what they need ...a mediator. This animated
film tackles conflict in lively, humorous and provocative ways.
Bullfrog Films (1997, VHS) Rental: $20.00 Purchase: $125.00
Early Adulthood: Cognitive Development (29 min) Saturday
10:15 a.m.
Cognitive development in young adults is covered with this study of adult
thinking contrasted with patterns in adolescence. Major theories on the
stages of adult cognitive development are presented, alongside a discussion
of how life events and the pursuit of a higher education influence adult
thinking.
Magna Systems, Inc. (1999, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $89.95
Early Adulthood: Love, Marriage and Divorce (29 min)
Friday 10:30 a.m.
This confronts the issues and theories of selecting a mate and making
the commitment of marriage. The various styles of relationships are examined
along with a discussion on why many of today's marriages end in divorce.
Magna Systems, Inc. (1999, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $89.95
Early Adulthood: Parenthood (29 min) Friday 9:00 a.m.
The responsibilities of parenthood represent both reward and challenge
to young adults. We examine how young adults adjust, and we share the
myths and misconceptions about parenting that are most common to our culture.
In addition, we cover issues that are of particular concern to those who
are non-biological parents such as step, foster, single, and adoptive
parents. Finally, various styles of parenting are described and assessed.
Magna Systems, Inc. (1999, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $89.95
Early Adulthood: Physical Development (28 min) Thursday
12:00 p.m.
This provides an overview of the physical status of men and women during
the "prime of life." In "live action" color video, issues of sexuality
and fertility are covered along with a discussion of senescence and the
process of growing old, which begins almost imperceptibly during young
adulthood.
Magna Systems, Inc. (1999, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $89.95
Early Adulthood: Special Problems (28 min) Thursday
7:30 p.m.
This treats areas of special concern during early adulthood, including
a discussion of why young adults are especially at risk for eating disorders
like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, substance abuse and death due
to violence or risky behavior.
Magna Systems, Inc. (1999, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $89.95
Early Adulthood: The World of Work (29 min) Thursday
1:15 p.m.
We examine the role that work plays, how the employment scene has changed
over time and the impact those changes have on the experience of young
adults. We also look closely at the major theories of career development
and the occupational cycle of the typical adult as well as the issues
faced by dual-career couples.
Magna Systems, Inc. (1999, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $89.95
Face First (29 min) Thursday 2:15 p.m.
The filmmaker and three others with facial birth defects grow up tested
by surgery and ostracism but emerge with unusual strengths that shape
their careers. An invitation for the viewer to stare without being "caught"
but with the risk that the surface will give way.
Fanlight Productions (1998, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $195.00
Fasting, Binging and Dieting: Eating Disorders (24
min) Thursday 7:00 a.m.
This work portrays differing perspectives on the multiple cases of eating
disorders from the perspective of two women with eating problems. The
primary focus is the inner world of the person and his or her struggles
with a primary motivator - food. Emphasis is on the developmental and
cultural aspects of the problem.
Inner Images Production Co. (1998, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $149.00
Fear of Intimacy, Part II: Voice Therapy with Couples
(50 min) Friday 11:00 a.m.
Fear of Intimacy, Part II, provide an in-depth exploration of the psychodynamics
underlying the tendencies of many men and women to retreat from love and
friendship in their most intimate relationships. The video program suggests
a solution, demonstrating a powerful therapeutic methodology, integrating
cognitive, affective, and behavioral components that can help couples
challenge these tendencies.
The Glendon Association (1998, VHS) Rental: $35.00 Purchase: $100.00
If I Can't Do It (57 min) Thursday 2:45 p.m.
Arthur Campbell, Jr. doesn't want your sympathy, he just wants what most
people have: a living wage, a meaningful social life, a few good laughs,
and the means to get around. In If I Can't Do It, filmmaker Walter Brock
offers an unflinching portrait of one cantankerous and courageous disabled
man who, with many others, is pushing for independence and an equal slice
of the American pie.
Fanlight Productions (1998, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $245.00
Inner Worlds: Schizophrenia (34 min) Friday 3:00 p.m.
This film takes the viewer into the world of Schizophrenia from the perspective
of the person suffering from the disorder. One experiences the time, person
and place of three individuals with Catatonia, Disorganized and Paranoid
Schizophrenia.
Inner Image Production Co. (1998, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: $149.00
Intelligence (76 min) Saturday 9:00 a.m.
The elusive concept of intelligence, and how modern society measures and
judges it, is the subject of this documentary investigation. Through encounters
with school children, computer hacks, brain specialists and even spies,
Intelligence examines the meaning of the term in all its pernicious influence
on people's lives and careers.
National Film Board of Canada (1998, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: N/A
It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
(78 min) Saturday 10:45 a.m.
This groundbreaking documentary is in national distribution as a resource
for educators, counselors, policy makers, parents and other adults. With
moving footage, shot in public and independent schools, it goes inside
first through eight grade classrooms to see what really happens when teachers
address gay issues in age-appropriate ways.
New Day Films (1996, VHS) Rental: $75.00 Purchase: $250.00 Institutions$99.00
Individuals
Joy Street (24 min) Friday 5:15 p.m.
Joy Street portrays a woman rescued from suicidal depression by the healing
powers of nature. Set to a haunting score by the 'Jazz Passengers', the
film embodies the pictorial realities of a dream. Joy Street is as close
to psychological poetry as animated film has ever come.
Bullfrog Films (1995, VHS) Rental: $45.00 Purchase: $195.00
Life, Death & Baseball (58 min) Saturday 5:15 p.m.
About to have a child of her own, the filmmaker explores with her parents
and siblings how the death of her little sister affected their lives.
For years the family never shared their feelings of loss.
Filmakers Library (1996, VHS) Rental: $75.00 Purchase: $295.00
Life, Death & Denial (44 min) Saturday 4:30 p.m.
Life, Death & Denial focuses on the impact of death anxiety on people's
lives. Filmed during a series of seminars on the subject of death, participants
described their reactions as children to the growing knowledge of death.
They go on to explore their responses to unusual achievement and happiness
in relationships-events that make them feel more vulnerable to the ultimate
loss of self.
The Glendon Association (1998, VHS) Rental: $35.00 Purchase: $100.00
Lost Borders (56 min)* there is also a 84 minute version
available Thursday 10:00 a.m.
Nine youths perform a ten-day initiation ceremony, at the heart of which
is a three-day and night solo fast in a high desert mountain environment.
They attempt to come to terms with death, torn families, and the transition
from adolescence to adulthood.
Bullfrog Films (1997, VHS) Rental: $95.00 Purchase: $275.00
Means of Grace (57 min) Friday 1:30 p.m.
Means of Grace is the story of the filmmaker's mother's struggle with
mental illness and her place in the world. It is a loving tribute to over
one million women who were institutionalized in the 1950's.
New Day Films (1996, VHS) Rental: $80.00 Purchase: $245.00
One Voice - Domestic Violence: Identifying Victims
and Batters (30 min) Saturday 2:30 p.m.
Identifies the profession's standards of care on approaches, tools, and
assessment strategies used to identify physical, emotional, and social
injuries that occur with domestic violence.
Concept Media, Inc. (1998, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $280.00
Sex & Society: Everyday Abuses to Children's Emerging
Sexuality (55 min) Friday 8:00 a.m.
Distorted attitudes toward sex and stereotypic views of men and women,
learned during childhood, are retained throughout life and cause serious
problems in intimate relationships. In this documentary, men and women
describe incidents from their early years where they were shamed, misunderstood,
and made to feel guilty about their bodies and their sexuality by parents,
peers, and institutionalized attitudes about sex.
The Glendon Association (1998, VHS) Rental: $35.00 Purchase: $100.00
Shyness (10 min) Thursday 1:45 p.m.
A wonderfully wonky look at the potentially debilitating emotion, shyness.
This animated short uses the familiar Frankenstein legend to illustrate
what shyness is, and how it can be overcome.
Bullfrog Films (1996, VHS) Rental: $30.00 Purchase: $50.00
Sleep and Its Secrets (52 min) Saturday 8:00 a.m.
A well-documented study on what happens to our brains during the crucial
hours of sleep. Includes footage of early sleep deprivation experiments.
Filmakers Library (1998, VHS) Rental: $75.00 Purchase: $295.00
Still Missing (40 min) Saturday 1:45 p.m.
Narrated by Peter Coyote, Theresa Tollin's latest profiles experiences
of four families whose children where abducted by strangers. Still Missing
is not a roughshod treatment of a highly emotional issue. On the contrary,
it's an informative, compassionate, and ultimately activist approach.
New Day Films (1998, VHS) Rental: $99.00 Purchase: $189.00
Stories No One Wants to Hear (27 min) Saturday 3:00
p.m.
Stories No One Wants to Hear allows four incest survivors, three of whom
were abused by their mothers, to share their stories of abuse and describe
how they have moved beyond the pain of the past. In the video, the act
of remembering is a primary step in the process of healing from sexual
abuse. Each woman candidly explores her experience: questioning her childhood,
acknowledging disquieting patterns, facing emerging memories and understanding
how the trauma has affected her.
Fanlight Productions (1998, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $145.00
Surviving Death: Stories of Grief (48 min) Saturday
6:45 p.m.
When a loved one dies, the process of making the loss real can be a lonely
and confusing experience. Surviving Death is about people negotiating
a new relationship with life after losing a loved one. Seven people -
parents, children, partners and friends - reveal how they have been affected
by the death of someone close to them.
National Film Board of Canada (1998, VHS) Rental: N/A Purchase: N/A
The Amazing Normal Story (57 min) Saturday 3:30 p.m.
This is the true personal story of the filmmaker, who became sexually
involved with a man old enough to be her father when she was twelve years
old.
Filmakers Library (1998, VHS) Rental: $75.00 Purchase: $295.00
The Band (52 min) Thursday 11:00 a.m.
The Band is an engrossing look at the ups and downs of all-American teenage
life, 1990's style. It is a portrait of post-modern adolescence.
UC Extension - CMIL (1998, VHS) Rental: $75.00 Purchase: $195.00
The Child That You Do Have (52 min) Friday 12:00 p.m.
This shows a new auditory therapy being used to treat autism. It takes
us to the Listening Center in Toronto, where therapist Paul Madaule has
made remarkable strides in helping children and their parents cope with
the disorder.
Filmakers Library (1998, VHS) Rental: $75.00 Purchase: $350.00
The Choice of a Lifetime: Returning from the Brink
of Suicide (53 min) Friday 4:15 p.m.
The Choice of a Lifetime is an inspiring documentary about transforming
suicidal despair into the will to live. Six people, aged 21 to 72, explore
the roots of their pain, the circumstances that led them to the brink,
and their journeys back to health. This video deepens our understanding
while exploring such healing modalities as support groups, therapy, and
artistic expression.
New Day Films (1996, VHS) Rental: $80.00 Purchase: $250.00 Universities$99.00
High Schools & non-profit Community Groups $39.99 Individuals
The Human Body: Appearance, Shape, and Self-Image
(37 min) Thursday 12:30 p.m.
This video examines with sensitivity and cross-cultural insight the variety,
meaning, and importance of the bodies we inhabit. Some of the subjects
examined in the video are bulimia, anorexia, tattooing, branding, plastic
surgery, scarification, body prejudices and "weightism," the impact of
"Super-Models" and beauty pageants, the effects of aging, and cultural
differences in ideas about personal beauty.
UC Extension - CMIL (1998, VHS) Rental: $70.00 Purchase: $295.00
Trick or Drink (20 min) Thursday 8:00 p.m.
Adapted from a performance by the same title, this courageous video fused
autobiographical material with information about how an alcoholic family
perpetuates addictive behavior. Elements of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings,
such as the "Hi, my name is..." introduction are used along with photomontage
and a disjunctive narrative. In addition to being shown at venues such
as the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum,Trick or Drink has been
used regularly by hospitals and alcohol treatment centers throughout the
United States.
Video Data Bank (1989, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $200.00
We're Not Stupid: Living with a Learning Difference
(14 min) Thursday 2:00 p.m.
We're Not Stupid is an insightful and very personal video that gives a
voice to people struggling with learning differences. It was made by filmmaker
Fonya Naomi Mondell, who is also living with learning differences. She
captured the personal stories of young people from all walks of life who
discuss what it's like to live with attention deficit disorder and dyslexia.
Media Projects (1998, VHS) Rental: $50.00 Purchase: $125.00
When the Dust Settles (7 min) Friday 7:15 p.m.
The prairie wind is not responsible for the dirt flying in this film;
the culprits are neighboring gophers with an un-neighborly appetite for
anger and revenge. Amidst the chaos that differences create, are there
still paths to reconciliation? Animated.
Bullfrog Films (1997, VHS) Rental: $20.00 Purchase: $125.00
Yidl in the Middle: Growing Up Jewish in Iowa (57
min) Thursday 3:45 p.m.
With warmth and wisdom, filmmaker Marlene Booth returns to her childhood
home to explore the tensions of being different and yet still fitting
in. Growing up Jewish in Iowa in the 1950's and 1960's, she examines the
forging of an identity made of conflicting parts. A fascinating exploration
of how religion, tradition, community, and family affect a young woman's
development.
New Day Films (1999, VHS) Rental: $80.00 Purchase: $250.00
You Don't Know Dick (58 min) Saturday 12:45 p.m.
A thought-provoking documentary on gender identity. Riveting portraits
of six men who were once women.
UC Extension - CMIL (1997, VHS) Rental: $95.00 Purchase: $250.00
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