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Derby
Grrrls:
Skates, Fishnet Burn, and Tough Tattoos
In 2001, a roller derby revival was born in Austin, TX. In 2006, the A&E t.v. show "Rollergirls" helped ignite the wildfire of derby across the nation. By now, every city has several teams of women that race around the track in quad skates, bust their way through the blockers, and risk major fishnet burn in this hardcore full contact sport. Roller derby is a grassroots sisterhood, promoting women's endurance, toughness, and confidence. Snakegirl Productions is currently filming/interviewing for a documentary movie and book about roller derby.
Covered:
A Social History of Women and Tattoos
For women, social approval of tattooing practices is based upon the understanding that she will keep her ink small, discrete, and cute--anything more, and she has definitely crossed the line of acceptable inking practices. For others that cross the line, tattooing represents a resistance to social norms of constructed female beauty--their tattoos are large, public, and potentially offensive. This project is for those women that cross the line, become heavily tattooed, and interpret this as an integral part of their identity. Additionally, female tattoo artists face challenges and advantages as they work inside a male dominated profession. Women and Tattoos presents the heavily tattooed women and female tattoo artists through interviews, shop visits, conventions, and personal narratives.
United States Social Forum, Atlanta, June 27-July 1, 2007. Video Report.
The historic United States Social Forum brought together 10,000 activists that put on 1,000 workshops on activism taking place in the United States and Latin America, as well as cultural events, art showings, plays, concerts, marches, protests, radical shopping, and social networking. I was honored to attend the event, and include some video trailers of the full length DVDs that I made of the event. Check out the USSF page and order the DVDs of the plenaries and workshops.
5:50 minutes. Atlanta. July 2007.
Marx in Soho
This play is about Marx's mistaken trip to Soho in New York, where he monologues about the cotinued relevancy of his economic philosophies in the current era. Written by Howard Zinn, the people's historian. This particular performance was at the historic United States Social Forum (USSF), June 2007.
Atlanta. June 2007. 2:19 min.
Immigrant Rights Marches 2006
In 2006, several nationwide marches for immigrant rights were held. Two marches that took place in Las Vegas were captured by Snakegirl Productions and included on this DVD of marches from across the country.
"My Angry Vagina," from the Vagina Monologues
The Women's Studies Student
Association at Florida International University produced The Vagina Monologues,
a play by Eve Ensler in February 2007. An amazing cast was found to perform
the monologues, and here they are auditioning the monologue "My Angry
Vagina." This DVD encludes the entire show, and bonus tracks such
as, directors comments, audience commentary, and of course, the audition
tape rendition of "My Angry Vagina."
4:51 minutes. Miami. May 2007.
A women's reproductive health clinic--aptly named A Choice For Women--has come under attack by anti-choice activists. This documentary features the work of Miami Clinic Access Project (MCAP), as they defend this clinic over months and months in mid-2006. Documentary movie released January 22, 2007 and now available for sale on DVD.
go to clinic movie page and order!
2:38 minutes. Miami. January 2007.
Other Snakegirl Productions websites:
http://snakegirl-production.blip.tv/
http://www.youtube.com/user/SnakegirlProduction
http://www.myspace.com/snakegirlproductions