Collections/January 2024

Directed by Juleen Compton

The two fiercely independent, idiosyncratic films made by Juleen Compton in the 1960s are vital works of bold, against-all-odds feminist art from a time when virtually no American women were afforded the opportunity to work in narrative feature filmmaking. Originally an actor who studied with Lee Strasberg, the free-spirited Compton self-financed Stranded (in which she also stars) and The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean , allowing her complete creative freedom in bringing these stylistically freewheeling, New Wave–inspired stories about women’s struggles for self-determination to the screen. Legitimately liberated in both content and form, they reveal a titanic talent who, in a more just world, would have enjoyed a long and flourishing career behind the camera.

2 films — 0 on the Channel, 2 unavailable