I.V. Studios / Elizabeth Sher

Now in her 10th decade, Weezie Mott's Cooking School has entranced generations of Bay Area food and fun lovers. After her mother died when she was 5, she was sent away to a Catholic boarding school. She became a Navy Nurse in WWII, married an officer and lived in Italy and Turkey for more than...

Fleeing Nazi Germany at 3, living in Turkey until a teen, emigrating to Canada, then New York City and finally settling in Berkeley, Edith Hillinger has led a fascinating life of migration that echoes today's experience. In spite of contracting polio as a toddler which left her lame, Edith has ...

Meet Penny Cooper "Champion of the Marginalized" - celebrated criminal defense attorney, lesbian, social activits and supporter of women artists with one of the largest collections of art by women in the US. Penny faced and overcame challenges without ever losing her positive attitude or her "f...

BELLA BELLA documents the latest chapter in major Bay Area sculptor Bella Feldman’s life and provides inspiration for anyone who thinks reaching 70 marks the time to pack it in. With creativity and verve Feldman overcomes the challenges of widowhood, a life threatening heart problem, and a new tr...

With her sharp memory and wit, Alma Foster, jazz enthusiast and wife of seminal jazz bassist George "Pops" Foster, recalls his beginnings with Louis Armstrong on the river boats in New Orleans, the Golden Age of Jazz in Harlem, the hilarious road trips, and later life and jazz in San Francisco.
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Younger, Thinner, Smoother puts the current plastic surgery craze into a social and historical context. When 80 year olds look like 60 year olds and 60 year olds look like 40 year olds, what will it mean to be old and what will old look like? Sher's personal journey leads to candid interviews wit...

Women & health professionals discuss menopause. An upbeat and informative look at the symptoms, risks, treatments, myths, fears surrounding this important passage, including the personal stories of more than 30 women.

1985

Before the commercialization! Pre MTV music videos by Phil Hopper & Elizabeth Sher including Flipper, Maximum Rock 'n Roll, Minimal Man, Speed, Noise, Ground Zero, Bound & Gagged, a story by William Burroughs and more.

Wide ranging pastiche of interviews, humor, satire and music - without the Orwellian 1984 white-bread blandness of mainstream TV magazines.

Includes:
Too Young
Flipper's "Brainwash"
Living at Risk
Community Service
John King
Wash It
My Mom's a Cop
Check Up
Hawaiian Hideaway and much,...

Another up and offbeat amalgam of weird, whimsical and ironic visions from 1985.

Includes:
Rock to Reagan
Phone Pro
Compu Shop
Pearls
Minimal Man "Showtime"
Amalia Mesa Bains
Chocolate Novelties, and much, much more.

The 1986 edition of I.V. Magazine brings you "information for people who can take it straight." but can you?
Includes:
Tripod Jimi's "Famous Dogs That I Have Known"
Fantasy Transmission
If the Shoe Fits
RCA
Arina Isaacson
Anton Gintner
Find It
Be a Winner
MacDonna and much, much more.
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1984
Mechanical performance, underground radio, public art & painting. Featuring Mark Pauline & SRL, No Other Radio & Maximum Rock & Roll, John King & more.

Three seminal artists of color share their work and their mission - installation artist Amalia Mesa Bains, sculptor John Abduljaami, and painter Carmen Lomas Garza.

1988

Audio art, puppetry and painting featuring Arina Isaacson, Arts Plural - Charles Amirkhanian & Carol Law, and Anton Gintner.

1995

Three women artists at mid-career - Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Jeanne O'Conner and M. Louise Stanley.

Including:
Juggling (14 min) - Sue Mutant, lead singer of the Mutants, stars in a non-singing role in this satirical study of a photographer and mother trying to juggle the many tasks and duties in her life and still keep some space for herself.

Beat It (4 min) - This exercise in fixation...

1979

This satire on the behavioral modification technique of potty training is required watching for every prospective parent. The nicest words a parent ever hears are "I want to go to the toilet".

From the Signs of Intelligence Series - Interpreted by Shaon Neumann-Solow
An interview with septegenarian deaf comic, mentor and educator, Evelyn Zola.
"America's First Lady of Deaf Senior Citizens" presents a fascinating adventure in ASL storytelling, Evelyn Zola captures a piece of Deaf he...

Dancer/choreographer and Bay Area Treasure Margaret Jenkins discusses her sources and influences (Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Jose Limon,) the early days of her company and the joys and challenges of keeping her legendary San Francisco dance troupe alive and well.

When Maggie Simpson Adams lost her uncle, the topic of his death was in her family and there was no healing ritual or closure. A year later her aunt was murdered in Mexico where she had lived for more than 2 decades. There the villagers created an altar and chanting circle in a ritual celebrat...