The Mom Tapes
A touching tribute for a mother by her daughter. A hilarious piece of performance art. A matter-of-fact portrait of a frustrated, bourgeois housewife. Artist Ilene Segalove’s four-year video project dedicated to documenting her mother is an endearing chronicle of a young artist turning a curious lens on her familial privilege, with the city of Beverly Hills serving as the backdrop.

Womanhouse
Womanhouse is the most comprehensive document of artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro’s feminist project and performance space, which took shape in early 1972 in an abandoned Hollywood mansion off North Mariposa Avenue as a space for the CalArts Feminist Art Program to explore their praxis. Filmed documentation of live performances staged within Womanhouse, including The Birth Trilogy, Maintenance pieces Scrubbing and Ironing, and Three Women, are interspersed between snapshots of installations within the former Victorian home’s rooms, such as the Menstruation Bathroom, the Bridal Staircase, and the Linen Closet, within which a bisected mannequin is eternally confined, hopelessly reaching out for help to escape.