Julia Lesage Collection
Inclusive Dates
1980 – 2010
Preservation Sponsor
Julia Lesage
Abstract
The collection consists of home movies shot by Julia Lesage. All were captured on small gauge formats, and feature images of everyday life in Logan Square with partner Chuck Kleinhans as well as travel to Central and South America.
Collection Items
Film
Michi & Catnip
1970s
Film
May 10, 1980 ERA March Grant Park
May 10 1980
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- Amsterdam Tour May 1981
- Auto mechanics 1964
- Brazil - Cayman Islands
- Caracas Cable Car
- Caracas IV Jungle
- Cat Chow June 1981
- Chuck at Mailbox, Mississippi River
- Dixon Il
- Dixon - Sylvia as Baby
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Front Porch - Landscape - Tree - Plastic Lens
- Hutchins in Dixon 1966 - Mexico Pavla Parade - Beach Trinidad Antigua - Party at Wests
- Logan 59
- May 10, 1980 ERA March Grant Park
- Mexico and Bull Fights
- Michi & Catnip
- Peru
- Peru
- Peru 1978
- Peru II Filming
- Sheep - Rain - Puddles - Children on Swing
- Skunk NY Moscow
- Soma
- Troubadours
- [Untitled Home Movie]
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- Zoo May 1981
Collection Identifier
C.2021-02
Extent of Collection
22 Super-8mm films totaling approximately 3850 feet; 14 8mm films totaling approximately 1725 feet; 1 16mm film totaling approximately 75 feet; and 1 open reel video tape.
Language Of Materials
English
Custodial History
The collection was stored in the home of Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage; first in Evanston, IL, then in Eugene, OR.
Related Materials
Papers and ephemera related to Jump Cut were donated to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research and are part of the Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage Collection.
Related Collections
Access Restrictions
This collection is open to on-site access. Appointments must be made with Chicago Film Archives. Due to the fragile nature of the films, only video copies will be provided for on-site viewing.
Use Restrictions
CFA holds the rights to the films in this collection.
Creators
Lesage, Julia
(was created by)
Julia Lesage is a film scholar whose work is devoted primarily to experimental filmmaking and feminist documentary theory. Her video work is largely political documentaries.
Lesage earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University in 1976. While in Bloomington, Lesage met her partner, fellow film scholar Chuck Kleinhans. Along with John Hess, Kleinhans and Lesage co-founded Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media in 1974. Featuring reportage, reviews, original research and analytical articles, Jump Cut is considered to be one of the most influential publications on the subject of film, and is emblematic of the era of the New Left. Jump Cut has continued to be published annually since 1974, making it one of the longest-running politically engaged film journals.
Lesage has taught as a visiting professor in departments of English, Women’s Studies, Telecommunications and Film across the United States (the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Rochester, San Francisco State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to name but a few), and as a tenured professor at the University of Oregon. Her publications include several monographs, including Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out, with Abby Ferber, Deborah Storrs, and Donna Wong (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Media, Culture, and the Religious Right, ed. with Linda Kintz (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), as well as countless articles that have appeared in Jump Cut, Camera Obscura, Film Reader, Wide Angle, and Women and Film, and in numerous edited volumes. Her award-winning video productions include In Plain English (Columbus International Film Festival, North Carolina International Film and Video Festival) for which she has received production grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Center for New Television, Chicago, Making a Difference, El Crucero, Troubadours, and Las Nicas. Lesage's video work was donated to Media Burn and can be viewed there.
Lesage earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University in 1976. While in Bloomington, Lesage met her partner, fellow film scholar Chuck Kleinhans. Along with John Hess, Kleinhans and Lesage co-founded Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media in 1974. Featuring reportage, reviews, original research and analytical articles, Jump Cut is considered to be one of the most influential publications on the subject of film, and is emblematic of the era of the New Left. Jump Cut has continued to be published annually since 1974, making it one of the longest-running politically engaged film journals.
Lesage has taught as a visiting professor in departments of English, Women’s Studies, Telecommunications and Film across the United States (the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Rochester, San Francisco State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to name but a few), and as a tenured professor at the University of Oregon. Her publications include several monographs, including Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out, with Abby Ferber, Deborah Storrs, and Donna Wong (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Media, Culture, and the Religious Right, ed. with Linda Kintz (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), as well as countless articles that have appeared in Jump Cut, Camera Obscura, Film Reader, Wide Angle, and Women and Film, and in numerous edited volumes. Her award-winning video productions include In Plain English (Columbus International Film Festival, North Carolina International Film and Video Festival) for which she has received production grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Center for New Television, Chicago, Making a Difference, El Crucero, Troubadours, and Las Nicas. Lesage's video work was donated to Media Burn and can be viewed there.