Irmi
The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.
Veronica Selver
Susan Fanshel
Casts & Crew
Hanna Schygulla
Also Directed by Veronica Selver
A documentary that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change.
More than two dozen men and women of various backgrounds, ages, and races talk to the camera about being gay or lesbian. Their stories are arranged in loose chronology: early years, fitting in (which for some meant marriage), coming out, establishing adult identities, and reflecting on how things have changed and how things should be.
On October 18, 1978, the San Francisco Examiner announced the birth of an innovative company, the Seven Sisters Construction Company, a group of women carpenters inspired to break down the barriers in a trade which has traditionally discriminated against them.
Also Directed by Susan Fanshel
Louise Nevelson was more than 60 by the time the art world acknowledged her as one of America’s greatest living sculptors. In her early years she had little money for materials, so she constructed her art out of discarded wood found abandoned in the streets of New York. Transformed, this unlikely raw material became the stuff of her famous black boxes and, later, the huge cubistic environmental art works which she innovated. For Godmilow’s 1977 film, Nevelson agreed for the first time to be filmed while she worked, during the creation of two major new sculptures, resulting in an invaluable document of her process. A charismatic and dynamic personality with an iconoclastic approach to life, Nevelson admits that her works are “really for my visual eye…a feast for myself.”