Evergreen State College Archives

Accession 76-08

Academic Affairs: Academic Deans: Marge Brown: Expressive Arts: Mediaworks

Student Films and Videos

Faculty:
Anne Fischel
Label Info:

Boys and Girls: A Look At Sexuality
Produced by Don Barenz and Annette Dawson

Format:
VHS
Status:
Run Time:
55:22
Date:
1997
Note:
Very simple, standard camera involvement using available lighting and in camera sound.
Synopsis:
Beginning with thier baby photos, this documentary explores hetero and homosexuality through the perspective of seven individuals. Each person provides their own definition of sexuality. Then follows various topics or questions ranging from the sexual repression of society to toys and gender roles to public displays of affection. After one question is posed we hear the reponse from each interviewee.

TIME:
Description of Content:
00:00

Has some residual video from TV and the start of a movie for a few seconds but then cuts directly into student film.

00:05

Title: "Boys and Girls: A Look At Sexuality"

00:10

Music plays and text is superimposed over crumpled looking paper reads: "Our gender creates bias. Our sexuality creates bias. Sex is part of who we are. No one is addressing the subject. When we aren't doing it, we are thinking about it. We don't talk about sex enough"

"We interviewed seven people hoping to discover the differences and similarities everyone shares in dealing with their gender and sexuality throughout life."

"We want to know where sexual prejudice may come from, how it determines the way we live our lives, and what possible solutions may exist. This is what they had to say..."

01:16
Introductions to interviewees as they introduce themselves and their preferences hetrosexual female, bisexual male, homosexual male, homosexual female (although not how she normally describes herself), bisexual female living hetrosexual lifestyle, "just a person" (man who chooses to be with men), "straight" male. Photos are shown from the interviewees' past as well as video of them speaking.
07:10

Question and Response:

"Are we as a society sexually repressed?"

11:18
"Did you explore gender roles with toys as a child?"
13:50
"Did you play with toys of the opposite sex?"
15:26
"Do you remember the first crush that you had on somoene?"
17:23
"Was there pressure for you to date a certain type of person?"
19:55
"When in love, do you experience any physical sensations?"
21:43
"What qualities attract you to another person?"
23:36
"What are you hoping to find in a relationship?"
25:39
"What are your long term goals for being in a relationship?"
29:48
"Do others assume your sexual preference?"
32:54
"how do you make your sexuality known?"
35:11
"In what way are people more than their stereotypes?"
37:42
"Are stereotypes based on misunderstandings, or absence of presence from a positive example?"
40:55
"How do you feel when homosexuality is addressed as wrong and immoral?"
45:30
"How would you argue that homosexuality is Not immoral?"
48:58
"Would the government's acceptance of gay and lesbian marriages be a step in the right direction?"
52:31

"Are public displays of affection appropriate?"

(Credits start to display during this question, music begins playing behind them):

Thank you Scott and Roxanne

Thank you Rick and Scott

Thank you Holly

Thank you Derrick and Corrine

Thank you Rachael and Simone

Thank you Mediaworks

A video by: Annette Dawson & Don Barenz

An ADDB Production c.1997

55:22
end of video.