Julia's Stepping Stones | movie | 2024 | Official Teaser - video Dailymotion

Pioneering filmmaker Julia Reichert, who passed away in 2022, shares the intimate story of her youth, as a working-class | dG1fcVp0UGRYa2xYeFU

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00:00Do you feel it's important for women to be feminine?

00:02Very, very much so.

00:04I think every woman should be feminine.

00:06I think that every man wants a woman to be feminine.

00:09Recognizing a man's masculinity and making him feel more masculine, this is femininity.

00:16When I think about a woman being feminine, the way that she can prove that she's a woman,

00:20she can have a child, you know, and she can cook and she can sew.

00:25It was filmed in basically 10 days over spring break in March and early April of 1970 in

00:31towns around Yellow Springs, Ohio.

00:35It has a two-to-one shooting ratio, so most of what we shot is actually in the film.

00:43We edited it right after the students were killed by National Guard at Kent State and

00:48Jackson State.

00:52We edited on an upright moviola that broke down every day and that we had to fix.

00:58One day, I edited.

01:00One day, Jim edited.

01:02One day, I edited.

01:03The next day, Jim edited.

01:05We believed that the only way to achieve a quality was to actually live it.

01:10Even though Jim found it easier to edit, we always made it equal.