Founded by On Our Backs magazine founders Nan Kinney and Deborah Sundahl at the height of the lesbian sex wars of the 1980s, Fatale Video was one of, if not the very first, companies dedicated to making erotic videos by and for lesbians. When a program featuring Fatale’s first two shorts – PRIVATE PLEASURES and SHADOWS – nearly caused a riot (!) at the 1985 San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Video Festival, festival programmer and EZTV associate John Canaly decided to bring them to the Video Gallery at the end of September 1985. This kind of programming would eventually lead to some of the more high-minded critics and video artists of the era giving the space the dismissive (and perhaps a bit homophobic) nickname, SleazyTV.

For this special screening, we’ll be playing a preserved copy of the original tape assembled for this program’s run at EZTV, with all of the original shorts, trailers, and snipes intact.

Ingrid Wilhite FUN WITH A SAUSAGE (1984, 16 min, Super-8mm-to-DCP)
“A young woman dresses unlike a man, stuffs a sausage in her pants and cruises the Castro district of San Francisco. A film by Ingrid Wilhite.” –EZTV

O. Wow PRIVATE PLEASURES (1985, 30 min, SD-video-to-DCP)
“Home alone with only her furs, her fingers, and lesbian porn on her VCR, an Asian lovely watches Penthouse, a classy seduction scene with heart-stopping action. A production of Fatale Films, San Francisco.” –EZTV

Ingrid Wilhite L’INGENUE (1985, 12 min, SD-video-to-DCP)
“A comedy about a novice baby dyke and her first visit to a lesbian bar. A video by Ingrid Wilhite.” –EZTV

Debi Sundahl SHADOWS (1985, 30 min, SD-video-to-DCP)
“Lesbian s/m. A production of Fatale Films, San Francisco.” –EZTV