LIVES:VISIBLE (2017) Producer, Director, Writer. 35 min.
An elegy for two cultures – the lesbian working class butch/fem world of pre-Stonewall America and the film-based snapshot that captured 20th Century American life. Using an archive of over two thousand photographs of a group of lesbian friends shot in Chicago from 1939 through the 1960s, Lives:Visible explores the ephemeral nature of all cultures and the way we know them from the objects they leave behind.
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LEFTOVERS (2012) Producer, Director, Writer. 23 min.
Norma and Virginia were a couple for almost fifty years. They died isolated, the vibrant pre-Stonewall lesbian community of their youth long gone. The only trace was snapshots - two thousand of them! Leftovers is a love story about the unforeseen trajectory of lives lived outside the mainstream.
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MOTHER RIGHT (1983), Producer, writer, director, camera, editor. 25 min.
In 1978, Citron’s mother moved to Hawaii where she worked for years at Hamburger Mary’s, a famous gay bar and restaurant. This film is about her life in that world.
WHAT YOU TAKE FOR GRANTED (1983), Producer, director, writer, editor. 75 min.
The tentative friendship of Anna, a feisty truck driver, and Diana, an upper middle-class doctor, provides the core for an intimate and moving look at women's experiences in jobs traditionally held by men. Based on actual interviews of forty working women in male dominated jobs.
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DAUGHTER RITE (1978), Producer, director, writer, editor, cinematographer. 55 min.
A groundbreaking feminist film about the emotional landscape between mothers and daughter, Daughter Rite questions what “truth” is in front of the camera.
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BIRTH TAPES (1977), Videomaker. 60 min.
Documentary.
SECRETARY TAPES (1976), Videomaker (with Fina Bathrick).
Five 30 min tapes. Documentary.
PARTHENOGENESIS (1975), Filmmaker. 25 min.
A violin student and her teacher question what it means to be a woman in the high stakes world of virtuosity musicians.
INTEGRATION (1974), Filmmaker. 8 min. Experimental.
A visual poem to Citron’s violinist sister.
APRIL 3, 1973 (1973), Filmmaker, 3 min. Experimental.
One hectic day in the life of three women during the early years of feminisms 2nd wave.
SELF DEFENSE (1973), Filmmaker, 4 min. Experimental.
A visual metaphor for women’s power in the 1970s.