Johanna Demetrakas Trailers
Feminists: What Were They Thinking? TrailerCrazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche TrailerJimi Plays Berkeley Trailer
Filmmaker and director Johanna Demetrakas has directed episodes of many television series including L.A. Law and Orde and Doogie Howser, M.D. She has also made award-winning film OUT OF LINE, starring Jennifer Beals, and the short film Homesick. She is also known for her award-winning documentaries and iconic feminist art films such as WOMANHOUSE and RIGHT OUT OF HISTORY. Most recently, Demetrakas directed a documentary focused on the arrival of Buddhism to the U.S. in the 70’s entitled CRAZY WISDOM. Demetrakas currently teaches cinematic arts at the University of Southern California.
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26 January 1974
Held in 1972 at 533 N. Mariposa Street, Los Angeles was one of the most important cultural events in the United States: "Womanhouse," a feminist art installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro.
01 October 2000
A 1998 editorial in Time magazine made the claim that the city of Los Angeles "might just have the most inept public-transport system on the planet earth.
01 January 1993
A young Native American man on his way to visit his uncle learns about his Navajo heritage by attending tribal gatherings, traditional ceremonies and listening to old folktales.
01 January 1996
In 1994 there was a shooting in Boulder, Colorado involving two 16 year old boys. "Tragic Consequences" looks deeply into what led up to the shooting, the context of gun violence in America and the tragic effect one shooting can have on not just the victim and perpetrator, but on witnesses, family, friends and the community at large.
10 August 1984
A man goes to Mexico to attend his father's funeral, 30 years after his father supposedly died.
16 October 1998
A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.
19 April 1974
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden.
23 May 1997
Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman.
21 September 2002
The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this challenge.
10 May 1978
A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn.
19 February 2018
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity.
05 May 1985
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.
01 October 1980
For five years, feminist artist Judy Chicago worked with a community of four hundred other artists, craftspeople and researchers to create The Dinner Party, a monumental tribute to women of spirit and accomplishment throughout the ages -- women whose names have been banished "right out of history".
03 November 2003
This rousing world-famous concert is regarded by critics to be one of Jimi Hendrix's finest performances ever.
20 November 2001
Henry, a hitman hired to take out a socialite, finds himself falling for Jenny, a parole officer, instead.
25 November 2011
CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.
10 December 1971
Star-studded show recorded at the Big Sur Folk Festival, Big Sur, California, September 13th and 14th, 1969.
