Throughout her career, pioneering filmmaker, the late Julia Reichert, gave voice to the voiceless. In a final collaboration with her husband, Steve Bognar, Reichert shares the intimate story of her own journey, from her youth as a working-class girl who dreamt of a larger life for herself to her discovery of documentary filmmaking and her own voice along the way.
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00:00Do you feel it's important for women to be feminine?
00:02Very, very much so.
00:04I think every woman should be feminine.
00:06I think that every man wants a woman to be feminine.
00:09Recognizing a man's masculinity and making him feel more masculine, this is femininity.
00:16When I think about a woman being feminine, the way that she can prove that she's a woman,
00:20she can have a child, you know, and she can cook and she can sew.
00:25It was filmed in basically 10 days over spring break in March and early April of 1970 in
00:31towns around Yellow Springs, Ohio.
00:35It has a two-to-one shooting ratio, so most of what we shot is actually in the film.
00:43We edited it right after the students were killed by National Guard at Kent State and
00:48Jackson State.
00:52We edited on an upright moviola that broke down every day and that we had to fix.
00:58One day, I edited.
01:00One day, Jim edited.
01:02One day, I edited.
01:03The next day, Jim edited.
01:05We believed that the only way to achieve a quality was to actually live it.
01:10Even though Jim found it easier to edit, we always made it equal.