Pangaean dreams [videorecording] : a shamanic journey / Rachel Rosenthal with Joe Leonardi. [1991]

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Pangaean dreams [videorecording] : a shamanic journey / Rachel Rosenthal with Joe Leonardi. [1991]

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With a title that references the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea into seven continents 250 million years ago, this performance video relates geologic transformation to personal transformation. Rosenthal performs her drama of the earth's history and a shamanic journey to Pangaea against an impressionistic collage of images of abstract motion, people, animals, refugees from Nazi Europe, and volcanic eruptions.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original (3 copies)

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Rosenthal, Rachel, 1926-2015

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Rachel Rosenthal (November 9, 1926 – May 10, 2015) was an interdisciplinary and performance artist, teacher, actress, and animal rights activist based in Los Angeles. She was best known for her full-length performance art pieces which offered unique combinations of theatre, dance, creative slides and live music. She was a leading figure in the L.A. Women's Art Movement in the 1970s and co-founded the Womanspace Gallery, a cooperatively run gallery devoted to work by female artists, in 1973. Sh...

Leonardi, Joe

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