VIDEOLAND: Jessica Hagedorn and the West Coast Gangster Choir, 1975, “Canto Negro” – The Poetry Center

Children of the jungle, shake, shake!

A clip from a video near and dear to my heart has resurfaced! Although I keep my bootleg copy close to my heart, the Poetry Center at SFSU has graciously uploaded part of a juicy and clean copy of Jessica Hagedorn and the West Coast Gangster Choir performing her poem/song “canto negro.” Poetry Center calls it “Dancing” but that’s not the poem! Anyway, the sound quality is so crisp it makes me want to cry. Plus, after doing a bit more digging I see that the entire video is available to watch! I will always love my crunchy copy, but wow.

A Moving X-Ray: Seven by Sandra Lahire | Another Screen

Sandra Lahire was a central member of the feminist and experimental filmmaking community in London in the 1980s and 1990s. She made ten 16mm films, most of them under half an hour in length. Marked by corporeal vulnerability – her own, that of the female body, the body of the earth, the body of film – Lahire’s work proposes a comparison between the violence committed by patriarchal society against women and that committed by humans against the non-human world.
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