Some Kind of Loving is the third and final video compilation tape in Joanie 4 Jackie's "Co-Star" series. [Note: Joanie 4 Jackie was formerly Big Miss Moviola.] Over the last seven years New York-based experimental movie curator Astria Suparak has arranged some of the most daring multimedia events in the city, presenting them in spaces such as PS1 Contemporary Art Center and Anthology Film Archives. But what if you don't live in New York? Joanie 4 Jackie knows that the best lady-made film and video art belongs not only in a gallery, but also in the bedrooms of girls all over America. So we asked Miss Suparak to put together a tape just for Joanie 4 Jackie. Some Kind of Loving explores sexuality from its formulation in childhood, through adolescence, and into adulthood. Using low-grade video, super-8 and 16mm film, optical printing, stop-motion animation and manipulated found-footage these five art stars decode desire and the cultural codes for lust via pornography, voyeurism, memories and fantasy.

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	No Place Like Home #1 directed by Karen Yasinsky USA, Horror / Bizarre, 0, Video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:05:00 In No Place Like Home #1 and #2 I began with Dorothy's red slippers. They allowed her to live out a fantasy in which she was the center of attention, strongly desired by forces both good and evil. She got to ... more info
	No Place Like Home #2 directed by Karen Yasinsky USA, Horror / Bizarre, 0, Video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:06:00 In No Place Like Home #1 and #2 I began with Dorothy's red slippers. They allowed her to live out a fantasy in which she was the center of attention, strongly desired by forces both good and evil. She got to ... more info
	Fine Lines directed by Jane Gang United Kingdom, Animation, 0, Super 8mm, Color, Optical Monaural, 00:05:00 "Repression breeds fine lines." This is a basic "scratch" film- one of the ways in which film celluloid has been physically worked on throughout the history of experimental film. I cut in some ‘screaming hol... more info
	Lullaby directed by Jennifer Reeder USA, Political / Social, 0, Video, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:18:00 "Lullaby" is a hard tape. It is seductive and sad at the same time. I remember Madonna in the early 1980’s. I was young (pre-teen). Her music made me feel sexy before I knew what sexy was and moreover, her mu... more info
	Pornfilm directed by Stephanie Barber USA, Erotic, 0, 16mm, Color, Optical Monaural, 00:06:00 "Pornfilm" is a short film about love and sex. About the narratives of each. A woman reads a brief story about an actor’s real life marriages; failure and later ‘wedded bliss’. The reading is stiff, awkward a... more info
	Martina's Playhouse directed by Peggy Ahwesh USA, 0, Super 8mm, Color, 00:20:00 Martina's Playhouse is my last Super 8mm film, made in 1989. I had shot a lot with young Martina and her mother Diane over the years and consider this film like the other Super 8s, a self-aware home movie mad... more info

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Some Kind of Loving comes with a printed booklet containing the secret thoughts and motivations of the artists.

RES Magazine:
Titled SOME KIND OF LOVING and curated by Astria Suparak, the new installment is an oozing, unctuous bunch of sex films that swings from the low budget Freudian antics in PEGGY AHWESH's classic "Martina's Playhouse" to the deconstructive impulses that rip through STEPHANIE BARBER's "pornfilm." All six films in the collection traipse through uncharted sexual terrain, using rough-and-ready low-end video and an appealing anti-aesthetic. Coarse and scruffy, yes, but also very hot, in a weird sort of way. --"Sex, Lies and Videotape"


Bust Magazine:
SOME KIND OF LOVING, curated by Astria Suparak, features five different filmmakers presenting pieces shot using various techniques [including super-8, home video, and stop-motion animation] about sex, women, and modern culture. I love this compilation and the series idea, and will look forward to seeing what JOANIE 4 JACKIE comes out with next. If you have any interest at all in women in film and video today, you should definitely get this tape. -- Kristin, "Chix in flix"


The Willamette Week:
Of the five films to be screened, the Brakhagian "Fine Lines" by Britain's JANE GANG is a haunting rant against the death of perception, while JENNIFER REEDER's "Lullaby" is a disturbing collision between pop culture and personal identity. --Steffen Silvis


Pacific Film Archives:
Some Kind of Loving "tracks female sexuality through the quagmire of loony and lascivious cultural codes.". --Steve Seid, Curator



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