All videos by CLAIRE BURCH
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History of American Funeral Directing Color / Sound / 45 minutes ISBN 0-916147-94-0 / $24.95 A heavily illustrated view of the world of mortuaries, embalming, caskets and funeral practices all over America, with a fascinating narration by an ex funeral director. Preceding the TV series Six Feet Under. |
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Homeless
in the Nineties Color / Sound / 40 minutes ISBN 0-916147-33-9 / $24.95 The combined emphasis is on the friction between society and a marginalized group—a friction that is potentially explosive. This emphasis is characterized by the opening clip, James Baldwin addressing an audience in Berkeley, where Baldwin says: “If I ain’t got nothing to lose, what are you going to do to me?” The primary view of the situation is given via an impassioned interview at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley with Margaret, a homeless Native American and mother of three. Includes original songs and images about homelessness. |
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Three
Homeless Encampments Color / Sound / 60 minutes ISBN 1-58790-047-5 / $24.95 Documenting three homeless encampments in Berkeley, two in 2002, the last in March of 2003, these attempts at solutions bring to mind the camps in Grapes of Wrath, the story of California homelessness in the 1930’s. In the second encampment, Civil Rights attorney Osha Neuman explains the paradoxes of local laws on sleeping outside, to a group of homeless people camping in protest in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Park in 2002. The ten day encampment was disbanded after Thanksgiving. |
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How
Berkeley Can You Be? Color / Sound / 60 minutes ISBN 1-58790-050-5 / $24.95 A lighthearted romp along the streets of Berkeley, catching funny moments from the annual parade “How Berkeley Can You Be” in Berkeley, California. |
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Judy
and Emily Color / Sound / 45 minutes ISBN 0-916147-87-8 / $24.95 The video film Judy and Emily takes a thirty five minute memory stroll through the lives of a single mother and her daughter. Undaunted by what fate had thrown at them in the way of a congenital illness that keeps Judy in a wheelchair without the use of her hands, arms or legs, what she manages to put together in the way of a joy-seeking responsible and creative life is simply inspiring, though with its bitter lemon moments. With what grace and humor Judy serves soup to her friend the filmmaker, the serving ladle held securely in Judy’s mouth as she deftly transfers food from pot to plate. Take a close look at beautiful Judy and her beautiful daughter, growing up before our very eyes. Don’t define Judy by her disability but by her sometimes acerbic wit and gentle sarcasm inside the world of pet cats, pet dogs, pet plants and pet people she oversees. |
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Kenny
& Georgia The Story of a Homeless African American Couple Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-80-0 / $24.95 A fifty-eight minute video containing voiceover and images of Kenny and Georgia (she is pregnant), intercut with scenes and images of their friends and acquaintances, who are also homeless. A large part of the film consists of original music set to images of homeless break-ins, squats and gatherings in People’s Park in Berkeley. |
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How
I Got Out of Jail and Ran For Governor of Indiana: The Jim Moore Story Color / Sound / 58 minutes ISBN 0-916147-55-X / $24.95 In 1931, Jim Moore, alias Theodore Luesse, went to prison for 21 months for “obstructing legal process.” What he was doing was obstructing evictions in Indiana. Bursting with blue collar wit and post Great Depression wisdom. |
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Memoirs
Of a Barbed Wire Surgeon Color / Sound 58 minutes ISBN 1-889059-91-9 / $24.95 This is a video about a survivor of the Bataan Death March in World War II who managed to continue practicing his profession all through their long ordeal, without instruments, anesthesia, antibiotics, medicines, or even simple supplies like bandages and antiseptics. When he performed an appendectomy with a broken Coka Cola bottle as a scalpel, the patient recovered. |
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