Full Description
This inventive documentary looks at the proliferation of alternative magazines published by women and explores the movement's relationship to contemporary feminist (including Jewish Feminist) culture. In keeping with the "girl zine" technique of reclaiming traditionally male print culture and giving it a feminist twist, local filmmaker Kara Herold hilariously appropriates the campy style of 1950s educational films to deliver a message: go out and do it yourself!
Filmmaker Bio(s)
Kara Herold is a filmmaker and videomaker from San Francisco. Her latest video, "Grrlyshow", is about girl zines and their makers. The video was completed in January 2001 and is being distributed by Women Make Movies. It has screened at the Sundance, Mill Valley, Film Arts Foundation, and Women In the Director's Chair Film Festivals.
In June, Kara completed "Tit Chat" and "Women for Sale". "Tit Chat" is a short animation drawn by Ariel Bordeaux about the burden of breasts. "Tit Chat" was a finalist in the audience award segment of the Queer Short Movie Awards on planetout.com. "Women for Sale" is an experiemental found-footage collage visually interpreting Beth Lisick's (of The Beth Lisick Ordeal) spoken word account of her teenage modeling career. "Women for Sale" recently won first place at the 23rd annual Cine-Poetry Film Festival sponsored by the National Poetry Association.
Kara Herold's other creative works include "La Signora di Tutti (Everybody's Woman)", and a fifty page essay about the filmmaker Maya Deren. She is also an actress, and just recently performed in "Fear and Misery in the Third Recih" by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Mark Nishamura, in October and November in San Francisco.
