Ariel Dougherty

Ariel Dougherty

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Ariel Dougherty is a teacher / mentor / innovator / seer / leader of youth, women's, and community media. An emphatic advocate of women-identified media, she was on the cutting edge of feminist filmmaking's historic emergence in the late 1960s.

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Sweet Bananas 1973

“Sweet Bananas traces the contrasting lives of some working class and upper class women, who end up all getting along.” -- E. Ann Kaplan
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SURVIVA 1980

A narrative constructed in the wishful-filmmaking, or “fanumentary”, genre. Rural women artists unite via CR to support one another’s work and to showcase more women’s art publicly available in their community. A refreshing weave that combines animation, nature shots and live action into a story of actualization.
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Arbitrary & Capricious 2022

Citizen and police body cam footage intertwine in a controversial electric meter change-out and are mixed with the audio of two citizen appeals before the City Commission on $50 monthly charges, now the highest in the county for non-smart meters. The struggle continues.