American Women — International women
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Kashiko Kawakita / interviewed by Herbert Feinstein.
Herbert Feinstein interviews Japanese film importer, producer and curator Kashiko Kawakita (1908-1993) in Venice, Italy during the time of the 1968 Venice Film Festival. Kawakita heads Towa Trading, which produces low-budget art films, and runs a number of art film houses in Japan as well. They discuss some of the Japanese films featured at the…
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From a mountain valley in Nepal / Judith Baumbgartner ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.
Judith P. Baumgartner, a Swiss registered nurse, spent two years in Nepal under the auspices of a private organization called the Swiss Association for Technical Assistance, nine months of that time completely alone in an area so remote she had to walk for six days to complete the last lap of her journey. She tells…
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Survivors of Ravensbruck / Maria Kusmierczuk and Jadwiga Hasa ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.
Dr. Maria Kusmierczuk, physician from Gdansk and Jadwiga Hasa, a pharmacist from Warsaw, two survivors from the German Concentration camp at Ravensbruck, Poland, describe their life there. Both women were members of the Underground Army, the Polish resistance movement in WWII. The women describe how prisoners in the all-women concentration camp, who were referred to…
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Toward a worldwide women’s movement / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Bonnie MacGregor, and Mara Keller.
A documentary from a conference of African, Asian, Latin American, Soviet, and American women who discuss the similarities of their social positions: Native American woman’s decline following Euramerican contact, the low status of women in the U.S. and USSR, the mass women’s movement in India, and the crucial role of women in the South African…
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Interview with Judy Mowatt / produced by Sue Supriano.
In Jamaica 1982, Sue Supriano interviewed Judy Mowatt, singer who was one of the “I-Threes,” Bob Marley’s back-up singers (along with Rita Marley and Marcia Griffiths). Mowatt talks about her music and her struggles as a Black woman. Three of her songs (pre-recorded) are featured in the recording: Black woman, My my people, and Think.
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An hour in Iceland
Iceland’s president, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, discusses her life as a theater director and professor of French, her exciting election of 1980, and her view of her role as representative of her country. Also a look at Iceland’s thousand years of history, culture, and literature, from the medieval sagas to the novels of Nobel Prize winner Halldor…