John Paspachel

Filmed in response to the LAPD’s shooting of Eulia Love in 1979, Gidget Meets Hondo opens with stills taken by Bernard Nicolas of a demonstration against Love’s killing. Nicolas’ Gidget is a self-absorbed young white woman who remains clueless to the violence erupting around her, ultimately to her own peril. The film asks whether such police brutality would be tolerated if the victim were a middle-class white woman.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A modernized telling of Charlotte Perkins-Gillman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." As a writer forced to bedrest after the birth of her son dwells in a summer home, she begins to see a woman creeping through the wallpaper of the baby's room, descending into madness.