Scarlot Harlot Video Festival
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsScarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s. Documenting the Bay Area's multicultural and sexually diverse political and artistic communities, Scarlot Harlot explores the Bay Area's historic cultural and artistic underground from an irreverent and intimate point of view. In a time when mainstream media has become a mouthpiece for corporate interests in America, Scarlot Harlot provides a fresh, irreverent perspective.
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Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes Pt1
March 21, 2012 19:32This documentary of the 1989 World Whores' Summit in San Francisco features prostitutes and activists from around the globe discussing human rights as they effect prostitutes. Music videos, sex worker rights documentaries and satiric bits, Scarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s.
Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes Pt3
March 21, 2012 19:29This documentary of the 1989 World Whores' Summit in San Francisco features prostitutes and activists from around the globe discussing human rights as they effect prostitutes. Last section... Music videos, sex worker rights documentaries and satiric bits, Scarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s.
Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes Pt2
March 21, 2012 19:28This documentary of the 1989 World Whores' Summit in San Francisco features prostitutes and activists from around the globe discussing human rights as they effect prostitutes. Part 2 addresses a... Music videos, sex worker rights documentaries and satiric bits, Scarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s.
Yes Means Yes by Dee Dee Russell and Scarlot Harlot
January 09, 2012 23:37Powerful, interracial date rape drama written by and starring performance artist, Dee Dee Russell. Directed by Dee Dee Russell and Scarlot Harlot. Shot and Edited by Scarlot Harlot. A ground breaking portrayal of sexual assault and a sharp satire on interracial sexual perceptions. "Best of the (Mill Valley) festival," said the SENTINEL and S.F. WEEKLY Winner First prize for fiction in Visions of US, administered by THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE featured at SF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, DENV...
Mother's Mink by Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot
January 30, 2009 23:29Animated comedy starring famous prostitute, Carol Leigh (also known as Scarlot Harlot) and her mom, about Leigh's efforts to obtain respectability as an artist, and to secure funding for a video about her mother's mink. In a parallel tale, Leigh's mom (and co-star) Augusta reminisces about how she "saved and suffered" to buy a mink stole to impress her mother. Is this movie about the Harlot's favorite subject, sex work? Judge for yourself! Featured at American Film Institute's National Video ...
Choice?
February 14, 2008 02:19As seen nationally on the 90's Cable Network! Focusing on issues of sex work in the context of 'choice,' this San Francisco pro-choice rally provides the backdrop for a series of thought provoking interviews about control over our bodies and self-determination including drugs, surrogate motherhood, sex work, and racism within the women's movement. Featuring 'Ladies Against Women.' (28 minutes)
Sorry Your Grandma Was Mugged, But I Was Busy Arresting A Hooker
November 10, 2007 15:27This is a short video about the trial of Starchild, 'the Million Dollar Male Escort.' The video chronicles a street theater protest by Sex Worker Outreach Project-USA starring Robyn Few, Scarlot Harlot, Dee Dee Russell, Peter Keyes and Vanessa Nelson. In the midst of a budget crisis which has caused clogging and early closure of Fremont and Alameda courts,the District Attorney chose to prosecute an expensive case against a San Francisco male escort. Starchild was charged with prostitution a...
Sex Worker Fest 2007 Trailer
August 21, 2007 01:54 - 2.29 MB VideoThis 50 second trailer is from the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival. The Festival was established in 1999 to provide a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker artists and filmmakers and to show work about sex workers and sex industries from around the world. The Sex Worker Festival provides an opportunity to recognize and honor prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers who have historically been a dynamic part of arts communities. The Festi...
Sunreich, Sunset Up: Anti-War Music Video
August 07, 2007 22:38 - 12.9 MB VideoThis is a music video from Scarlot Harlot's TV series 'Whore in The Gulf,' during the first Gulf war. In response to the networks' censorship and the nationalistic zeal, Leigh produced weekly coverage the Bay Area anti-war movement during the Gulf War. In the series San Francisco protesters discussed world peace, the growth of fascism in America, and activism in the nineties. Peace-positive propaganda, CNN...revised and improved. SUNREICH, SUNSETUP, a music video featuring Scarlot Harlot and ...
Be A Whore by Lillith Lash
February 22, 2007 21:49This short song was written and performed by Mistress Lillith Lash (contributor to the book Sex Work from Cleis Press). Lillith and Scarlot were part of the performance duet, "Les soeurs de la merde," translated to mean 'The Sisters of Shit." Scarlot Harlot taped this piece on location at the notorious boudior apartment in Berkeley, CA around 1990. (1990-2.5 minutes)
Come Out Hollywood
February 03, 2007 02:06You Can’t Be Too Fabulous! Scarlot Harlot with Sadie, Sadie the Rabbi Lady and Chanel 2001 (Gilbert Baker) go down to Los Angeles to attend the Academy Awards in 1989. The ensemble explains to the other fans as they 'costume up' in the stands, that they are prostitutes and homosexuals, telling Hollywood to fess up...This theatrical romp was reported by the Los Angeles Times. 12 min-1989.
Sex Workers Take Back The Night (excerpt)
January 06, 2007 01:404 minute excerpt-Scarlot Harlot attends San Francisco's Take Back the Night (December 1990), a march in remembrance of the fourteen female college students murdered in the previous year's Montreal Massacre. Clashes and controversy emerge between sex-workers and anti-porn feminists about sex, violence and men- with an emphasis on the perspectives of strippers and sexual rights activists...an excellent feminist discussion piece. In this 4 minute excerpt friends of Scarlot discuss their expectat...
Yeastie Girlz sing Put a Lid On it
October 22, 2006 22:50 - 4.74 MB VideoThis remarkable trio called the Yeastie Girlz from 1988 were at the forefront of new modes of musical performance. This clip comes from Scarlot Harlot's Die Yuppie Scum, named after another Yeastie Girlz song. In this safe sex rap the Girlz explain the necessity of condom use. The movie, winner 'Best Documentary at Athens International Film Festival,' was a documentary of the 1988 Anarchist Conference in San Francisco. Visit yeastiegirlz.com for more info.
San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival Trailer 2005
September 16, 2006 01:08 - 2.56 MB VideoThe San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival has screen over 150 films since 1998. Films focus on sex; prostitutes' rights; organizing efforts and working conditions for strippers; more sex; global sex work and sex work as a labor issue on the international agenda; sex workers as heroes and heroines; sex workers as saints; sex workers as jerks and perverts; sex work and gender identities; queer sex workers; sex education; sex art; sex panic; sexual orientation; sexual i...
Safe Sex Slut Music Video
September 15, 2006 02:57Safe Sex Slut is a music video, made in 1987, expressing the frustration and challenges of changing ones sexual habits in the wake of the AIDS crisis. This video is part of a longer collection of... Music videos, sex worker rights documentaries and satiric bits, Scarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s.
Safe Sex Slut Music Video
September 15, 2006 02:53 - 15.6 MB VideoSafe Sex Slut is a music video, made in 1987, expressing the frustration and challenges of changing ones sexual habits in the wake of the AIDS crisis. This video is part of a longer collection of music videos and comedy bits.
Free Whores (from Die Yuppie Scum by Scarlot Harlot)
August 23, 2006 00:54"Free Whores" is a music video written by and featuring Tracy Tief, performed by the band Mourning Sickness from Canada singing "Sex Trade Worker." This was performed at the San Francisco Anarchist conference in 1988 and is also part of the movie, Die Yuppie Scum by Scarlot Harlot. This music video also features the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights. (6 minutes-1992)
Outlaw Poverty, Not Prostitutes
August 22, 2006 01:36This documentary of the 1989 World Whores' Summit in San Francisco features prostitutes and activists from around the globe discussing human rights as they effect prostitutes.
Scarlot Harlot's Interstate Solicitation Tour Pt3
July 29, 2006 21:01Scarlot and P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes of New York) continue to engage in civil disobedience on Wall Street. This last section features interviews with bystanders.
Scarlot Harlot Interstate Solicitation Tour Pt2
June 20, 2006 01:32Scarlot and P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes of New York) continue to engage in civil disobedience on Wall Street.
Scarlot Harlot Interstate Solicitation Tour Pt1
May 07, 2006 21:20 - 6.7 MB VideoScarlot and P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes of New York) engage in civil disobedience on Wall Street.
Mom says "Use a prophylcatic"
April 27, 2006 01:47 - 2.16 MB VideoMom says "Use a prophylcatic" Mom's politically correct advice on safe sex.
Scarlot Harlot Video Festival Titles
April 23, 2006 23:39 - 1.07 MB VideoIntroducing Scarlot Harlot.