Movies: Alexandra Juhasz

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes....

For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how th...

Two middle-aged lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger girl and decide to cover it up. But their crime comes back to haunt them when an unexpected stranger appears in their lives, bringing tension and discord....

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video. They range in age from 65 to 25....

Two jewish lesbians hold a naming ceremony for their baby in a melding of old customs and new ideas....

“Hooters!” explores lesbian culture, with humor, insight, and artistry, through the collaborative film making process used in Cheryl Dunye’s new seminal film, “The Owls”....

A euphoric lesbian sex video features a group of women in a frenzy of erotic scenes with poetry, slowly dripping water, fancy goldfish, and an ecstatic score by Sheila Chandra. Experimenting with pro-sex feminist media practices and pornography, Sex ...

Self-reflexive video/super 8 film starring James Robert Lamb, Carolyn Lesjak, Alexandra Juhasz and neighborhood folks from the LES, 1989...

A documentary structured around private and poetic letters to her son from the feminist activist filmmaker, Alexandra Juhasz. The film shows the present situation of the director and five of her friends who went to university together. The women, who...

A meditation on technologies of memory, with close attention paid to medium specificity, this installation considers how Zoom and other pandemic technologies composite onto screens, and also into rooms, flattening and deepening connection, attention,...

The Women's AIDS Video Enterprise (WAVE) was a unique "video support" group sponsored by the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force and arts funding organizations. For six months, seven women of diverse backgrounds met to talk and learn about AIDS and video. "We C...

In 1993, Alex shoots an interview with her best friend Jim as he tries to recount his life as he is dying. In 2004, she re-works this haunted video, playing it in real-time but letting bleed in a host of present day interviewees who also reflect upon...