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Jackson Pollock: Portrait (Strokes of Genius)

Jackson Pollock shocked the world with his now legendary drip paintings of the late 1940's. This portrait of the maverick painter depicts Pollock's youth in the American West and reaches into the complex mind of the artist whose wildly original paintings altered the course of art history. In rare film footage, Pollock is shown in action: physical and fully focused, he slashes at canvases with a remarkable explosion of color and energy. This award-winning documentary offers insight into the genius of one of this century's most provocative painters.

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Hosted by actor Dustin Hoffman.

Portrait of the maverick painter depicts Pollock's youth and reaches into the mind of the artist whose wildly original paintings altered the course of art history.

The Jamesie Project

70-minutes, DVD format Completed September 2006.
Award-winning filmmaker Andrea E. Leland collaborated with James Brewster to create a 70-minute documentary and archiving project. The result of their collaboration is a spirited musical journey to the Caribbean focusing on Scratch band music (also known as Quelbe) , an indigenous, grass-roots form of folk music from the Virgin Islands that was recently declared the official music of the Virgin Islands.

Jamesie, King of Scratch

70 minutes DVD
79-year old James Brewster is an uncompromising musician from the Caribbean island of St. Croix known for his humorous, provocative and playful compositions and lively performances. Scratch band music, also known as Quelbe, is an indigenous, grass-roots form of folk music that originated over a century ago in the U.S. Virgin Islands and is the official music of the Virgin Islands. The lyrics are a form of oral history used to immortalize historical events, spread rude gossip about one's neighbors, and relay the day-to-day trials and tribulations of living on a small Caribbean island. As a young boy, Jamesie made his own instrument out of a sardine can and a piece of white pine lumber. In the six decades that have followed, Jamesie and other musicians continued to use instruments that one can "scratch up" when performing and recording music along with more contemporary instruments. The music has crudeness to it that is intoxicating and rhythmic speaking to both the beauty and the hardship of the Crucian (of St. Croix) lifestyle.

Jan Oxenberg Triple Bill

A discounted collection of Jan Oxenberg's films -- A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts, Home Movie, and I?m Not One of ?Em -- are available for rental as a triple-bill.

Jane: An Abortion Service

A film by Kate Kirtz and Nell Lundy , 1996, 58 min., Color
This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who per...

Japanese American Women

A videotape by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro and Leita Hagemann Luchetti , 1992, 28 min., Color
The stereotype of the polite, docile, exotic Asian woman is shattered in this documentary in which a dozen women speak about their experiences as part...

The Japanese Version

The Japanese Version goes beyond the stereotypical images of Japan that are too often presented to Americans, and asks the questions: What happens to Western cultural ideas and objects when they are placed in a new setting? How have the Japanese navigated the flood of foreign influences that has been inundating their culture for a thousand years? With its series of entertaining yet revealing sequences, The Japanese Version is truly a cross-cultural surprise, as well as a warm and funny portrait of Japan today.

Jenny and Jenny

A videotape by Michal Aviad , 1997, 60 min., Color
This moving, closely observed portrait of adolescence documents one summer in the lives of two 17 year old cousins named Jenny. As North African Jewi...

The Jew in the Lotus

60 minutes VHS
In 1990, eight Jewish delegates traveled to Dharamsala, India, to meet with the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet and share 'the secret of Jewish sprititual survival in exile.' When writer Rodger Kamenetz was invited to go along to chronicle the event, unexpectedly, his whole life changed. Kamenetz begins an intense personal journey that leads him back to his Jewish roots. As he discovers, sometimes you have to go far away to find your way home.

Joan Does Dynasty/Joan Sees Stars

Two videotapes by Joan Braderman , 1993, 95 min., Color
In the now classic, JOAN DOES DYNASTY (1986, 35 mins), Braderman superimposes her own image over scenes from one of the most popular night time soap o...

Jodie: An Icon

A film by Pratibha Parmar , 1996, 24 min., Color
Jodie is a fast paced, breezy look at the transatlantic phenomenon that has made Hollywood actress Jodie Foster an icon for lesbians who identify with...

Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia

A film by Ulrike Ottinger , 1989, 165 min., Color
Ulrike Ottinger's epic adventure traces a fantastic encounter between two different worlds. Seven western women travelers meet aboard the sumptuous, m...

Joint Custody: A New Kind of Family

56 min.
JOINT CUSTODY explores the complex relationships of three different family situations where former spouses negotiate detailed arrangements, children move back and forth between two homes, and remarriage creates a new kind of extended family.

The Jolo Serpent Handlers

40 Min
In-depth portrait of a small snake handling church in Appalachia . The film shows two fascinating serpent-handling services, as well as answers many of the questions that outsiders have. Churchmembers speak of why they handle snakes; what gap it fills in their lives; what it's like to grow up in the religion; the persecutions they have suffered; losing a church member to the poisonous snakebite; the importance of community. Scenes of singing and playing music together give us another side to the fabric of their lives.

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

2007, 90 min.
If you think you know the story of the Jonestown tragedy, think again. Using never-before-seen archival footage and survivor interviews, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana to California and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society. On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of Peoples Temple died in the largest mass suicide/murder in modern history. The 1960s were years of intense social and cultural tumult: it was the Age of Aquarius, when change was in the air, revolution on the horizon, and all things seemed possible. Some looked to transcendental meditation, free love, Black Power, or LSD. But for others, Jim Jones, the charismatic and forceful leader of Peoples Temple, offered the perfect balance of spiritual fulfillment and political commitment. Jones not only preached about integration and equality, but also built an organization that provided food, clothing, and shelter to his congregation and his community. On the surface, Jim Jones and his multiracial congregation, Peoples Temple, espoused the values of a model society but beneath the surface lay accounts of physical, sexual, and drug abuse, financial corruption, and members being held against their will. Jonestown goes beyond the headlines to provide a revealing and honest portrait of Jones and The Peoples Temple.

Josef Mengele: The Final Account

The eerie recording of Josef Mengele's singing from his Brazilian hideout is made public for the first time in the opening of this film. The warrant for the arrest of Auschwitz's Angel of Death was a catalogue of horror, yet Mengele managed to elude justice, living in isolation in South America. Josef Mengele: The Final Account looks back at the crimes and life of the SS doctor who sent 400,000 people to the gas chambers in the horrifying pursuit of racial purification.

Part of the larger series:

Archives of the Mossad: Isreal's Secret Hunt for Nazi War Criminals

(Includes the following four titles):

Josef Mengele: The Final Account looks back at the crimes and life of the SS doctor who sent 400,000 people to the gas chambers in the horrifying pursuit of racial purification.

Josef Mengele: The Final Account

Part of the larger series:

Archives of the Mossad: Isreal's Secret Hunt for Nazi War Criminals

(Includes the following four titles):

Josef Mengele: The Final Account looks back at the crimes and life of the SS doctor who sent 400,000 people to the gas chambers in the horrifying pursuit of racial purification.

The Journey Home

Through the candid stories of five patients and their families this new video presents the unique gifts of hope and relief that hospice care programs offer to over 500000 terminally ill patients each year.
The candid stories of five patients exemplify the unique gifts of hope relief and dignity that hospice care programs offer to thousands of terminally ill patients each year.

Journey Back, A

In this powerful and candid documentary, a Holocaust survivor refuses to become embittered or broken by the tragedy. Jack Garfein, now a successful Broadway producer, returns to Auschwitz to confront his past. The sole survivor of his family he searches for the truth behind the atrocities of the camps.

Garfein retraces his youth by examining public records, visiting his family home in Bardejov (in what is now Czechoslavakia), and returning to Auschwitz. As he moves through the busy streets of Bardejov and the silent paths at Auschwitz, A Journey Back becomes a vivid, personal record of one man's odyssey to reclaim his heritage.
Jack Garfein, now a successful Broadway producer, returns to Auschwitz to confront his past. The sole survior of his family, Garfein courageously searches for the truth behind the tragedy of the camps.

Journey to Federal Hall

In this charming and informative animated film, George Washington reflects on the birth of the nation and the role of New York's Federal Hall as he is driven to his inauguration. The historic building, originally the seat of New York's royal government, played a prominent part in American's revolutionary history. There, in 1765, colonial delegates protested the hated Stamp Act and its imposition of taxation without representation. The first Congress met at Federal Hall in 1787, and on its steps Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States. Journey to Federal Hall presents a clear and entertaining introduction to one of our nation's most important historic sites.
In this charming and informative animated film, George Washington reflects on the birth of the nation and the role of New York's Federal Hall as he is driven to his inauguration.

Joy of Life, The

The Joy of Life is an unconventional appreciation of the streets and stories of San Francisco, combining stunning landscape cinematography with a lyrical, well-crafted voiceover to offer a poetic reflection on the City By the Bay. Grappling with gender identity issues and the occasional episode of depression, the film's lone protagonist (the voice of Harriet "Harry" Dodge, By Hook or By Crook, Cecil B. Demented) pinballs from sexual conquest to neurotic despair, manic romance to pathetic solitude. The voiceover balances melancholy angst and wry humor in its Casanova account of various urban, romantic, and sexual adventures - from the frisson of flirting to the heartache of rejection.

Joyce at 34

28 min.
A woman faces the conflict of work vs. family.

Juggling Gender

1992, 27 minutes, Color,Video Spanish subtitled version available.
A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard. Miller works as a performance artist, circus director, clown and as the "bearded lady" in one of the only remaining sideshows in America. In public she is often mistaken for a man, an experience she handles with the wit and intelligence that characterize her stage performances. JUGGLING GENDER explores the fluidity of gender and raises important questions about the construction of sexual and gender identity.

jumping off bridges

93 minutes DVD
jumping off bridges is a heartfelt and authentic depiction of how a group of teenagers comes to terms with the mental illness and eventual suicide of a parent. The film illustrates the ripple effect of trauma and depression and explores some of the issues teenagers face including friendship, trust, grief, rage, love, and conflict resolution. It's a story about friendship, a story about strength and a story about finding hope

Junk Box Warrior

Based on a poem of the same title, Junk Box Warrior is an enchanting mesh of spoken word and black-and-white images over a haunting soundtrack. Written by and starring Trans Slam poet Marcus Rene Van (of Deep Dickollective), this film explores the alienation, frustration and fear of not fitting into society's gender binary.

Junkyard Saints

Junkyard Saints is a spiritual thriller set in the tough, gritty world of an auto dismantling yard somewhere in rural South Texas. The story centers on Lalo Flores (played by Jeremy Ray Valdez), a Latino teenager recently released from a youth detention facility, and his growing acceptance of the son he has recently fathered. He works for Clemente (Leon Singer), who has the unusual habit of collecting the plastic dashboard saints that are extracted from the wrecked cars brought into the junkyard. Clemente believes these saints have failed to protect the drivers of these doomed vehicles and need to be retired to a shed hes been filling with faulty saints for the last 30 years. When Lalo encounters Ray, a local drug dealer, he finds a different sort of refuge and salvation among Clementes saints.

A Jury of Her Peers

1980, 30 minutes, Color, VHS/DVD
On a desolate American farm in the early 1900's, a farmer is found murdered in his sleep and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. The highly anticipated re-release of this feminist film classic, a powerful adaptation of the 1917 Susan Glaspell short story, A JURY OF HER PEERS presents a riveting tale of revenge, justice and womens shared experience. Equally relevant in womens studies courses and for use with organizations battling violence against women, this riveting film probes the notion of womens victimization and justifiable homicide and opens the possibility for the creation of an alternate, feminist justice and judgment. Two women, a neighbor and the sheriffs wife, find themselves in the accused womans kitchen while the prosecuting attorney and their husbands search the farm for motive for the crime. As the camera lingers on small details in the kitchen spilled sugar, a broken chair, crooked stitches in a quilt piece the motive becomes clear as the suspects isolated life of physical and emotional abuse is revealed. As each new clue further incriminates the accused, the women must decide whether to reveal the evidence against her and become, in effect, a jury of her peers.

Just to Have a Peaceful Life

Pat was married to her abusive husband for forty-five years. Not only did he beat and threaten to kill her but he also routinely abused their five children. Though Pat left her husband three times when the children were small she returned each time becau
This extract of a case originally profiled in Elder Abuse: Five Case Studies is a frightening demonstration of the patterns of dependency and denial that fuel the cycle of elder abuse.

Just Call Me Kade

Kade Farlow Collins is a sixteen year old FTM (female to male transgendered person) residing in Tucson, Arizona. Kade?s parents maintain a supportive and nurturing relationship to Kade regarding the many challenges facing their teenage child. However, it hasn?t always been easy.

Just For Fun

When Justin moves in with his older brother Andrew to attend summer school in the city, he has to struggle both with being accepted at his new school and with his feelings about Andrew's homosexuality. However, as he becomes more a part of the group at school, he becomes less dependent on his brother's company and more openly contemptuous of his lifestyle. One night, Justin goes out with his new friends and finds himself participating in a gay-bashing. When the victim turns out to be his brother, he is forced to confront his own prejudices and to make some important decisions about where he stands.

Direct and accessible, Just For Fun offers a concise and emotionally powerful analysis of the issues surrounding homophobia and violence against gays and lesbians. Especially suited for educating teenagers, it is an affecting and thought-provoking film for older audiences as well, including educators, social workers and community groups.
A short, fictional film in which a high school student goes out one night with new friends and finds himself participating in a gay-bashing. When the victim turns out to be his brother, he is forced to confront his own prejudices and decide where he stands.

Just For Leather

Looking for the perfect fit, a leather scene newbie cruises the bar.  After making a connection with a leather daddy, the two head back to a flat for some fun, but the novice only has one thing on his mind.

Just Passing Through

A half-hour documentary profiling two juvenile delinquents in a wilderness rehabilitation program. Broadcast on PBS by KBDI/Broomfield, Colorado.

Juxta

A film by Hiroko Yamazaki , 1989, 29 min., BW
This beautiful drama observes the psychological effects of racism on two children of Japanese women and American servicemen. Thirty-one year old Kate,...