My Life in Art

Includes 8 films: Promise Her Anything But Give Her The Kitchen Sink, Shooting Star, Standup & Be Counted, Adam's Birth, Sweet Dreams, Folly, Women & Children At Large, and One On The Same. Freude combines the most glorious artifacts of California living with a melange of domestic, maternal, and wholly personal symbols. The result is a free-flowing pastiche whose essence is the filmmaker's love of husband, babies, friends, and West Coast. Freude's work is a rare example of feminist filmmaking infused with humor, poetry, and sensuality. —Karen Cooper