A funny, bitter look at middle-class youth trying to be tough in the trappings of pornography, drugs and quick money. A film about desperation in the New York streets.
Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never been seen before. Based on a book by Alexis Krasilovsky, the film tells the stories of camerawomen surviving the odds in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Mexico, the U.S. and other countries, as well as exploring their individual visions.
Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer women in a male-dominated field, but a new generation of camerawomen's visions.
"The Parking Lot of Dreams" is a short film written and directed by Alexis Krasilovsky (www.alexiskrasilovsky.com). It incorporates poetry written during and about the pandemic, as well as photocollages created by the filmmaker from many solitary walks in a place without people. Also featuring the avant-garde dancer, Mao Chenhui, with music by David Gusakov. Poems from the film's soundtrack are included in Alexis Krasilovsky's just-published book, "Watermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems" (Cyberwit: Allahabad, India, January 2, 2022).
What is it called when you run a women's film festival for one month, and show almost nothing but films by men the other eleven months of the year? Guerrilla Commercial protests discrimination faced by women filmmakers during the 1970s. Programmed without preview as part of Krasilovsky's first retrospective, held at the Whitney Museum on March 9, 1973, in a women's film festival entirely run by men, Guerrilla Commercial is the film the Whitney wanted to burn.
This is the debut documentary made by Alexis Krasilovsky, author of "Women Behind The Camera" (Praeger, 1997). Shot on 16mm in 1971, the film covers much of the New York avant-garde of the time.
