From: Steve Cooke (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 26 2009 - 01:52:41 PST
Dear all,
Very many thanks indeed for helping out with locating a copy of
Stamen. As well as the references to a video copy, we've now been able
- through this list - to find a 16mm copy in London - condition
unknown, so perhaps a restoration project as well.
If any of you would like to be kept up to date on the restoration,
just let me know.
Very best wishes, Steve
2009/1/24 Chuck Kleinhans <email suppressed>:
>
> On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Steve Cooke wrote:
>
> Does anyone have an inkling of where we could start searching for a
> print or video of this work?
>
>
> As I remember it, Beeson made a number of films which were distributed by an
> outfit in San Francisco that offered sex education materials (broadly
> defined) for educational institutions (such as med schools, social work
> programs, etc.). Her film "Touching" was a hyper romantic depiction of
> lesbian sexuality (which provoked a response film by Barbara Hammer,
> "Dyketactics"). I can't remember the name of that distributor (doubtless
> now out of business) but some Bay Area folks might. I believe some of that
> collection ended up with a Bay Area school that offered professional
> training to sex therapists.
> You can do an online title search in the Kinsey Institute collection (their
> stuff does not circulate) at Indiana University; and also send a query to
> their media librarian.
> It's hard to imagine that those who manage her estate would be unaware of
> or embarrassed by her sexual themed films which were well known and widely
> circulated at the time. She was certainly frank in depicting sex, with a
> strong strain of counterculturey romanticism.
> CHUCK KLEINHANS
>
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