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CONTENTS

Drake Stutesman and Susan Potter
Editorial

Ronald Gregg and Drake Stutesman
Introduction

MM Serra and Lynne Sachs
“From My Mouth to Your Ear”: Recounting A Life in Art and Cinema

CELEBRATIONS AND TESTIMONIALS

Annie H. Berman
“Your lens is a tongue, lick all the surfaces”: A Taste of the Life of MM Serra

MM Serra
Chance: Mary Magdalene Serra

Peggy Ahwesh
Roses Are Red (my love)

Vera Dika
Meeting Up with MM Serra

Ronald Gregg
The Indispensable Expertise of MM Serra for Queer Experimental Film History

Kiki Loveday
You Said

Devon Narine-Singh
What MM Teaches Me

Ara Osterweil
MM

Erica Schreiner
Experimental Women

Marc Siegel
The Liveliness of the Avant-Garde

Chris Straayer
The Brain of MM Serra

Drake Stutesman
Fantastic Spirit

Juan Antonio Suárez
Color Me Coop

Joe Wakeman
MM Serra: A Witness to the World

Jack Waters and Peter Cramer
A Conversation with MM Serra

Seth Barry Watter
“Cosmic turtles enjoying breakfast—wonderful rain yesterday”: MM Serra as Neighbor

Josie Willems
Mary Magdalene. The Myth, Legend, and Icon

Ger Zielinski
MM Serra’s Living Legacy, her Films, Gardens, & Turtles

EDITORIAL

This is a very special double issue devoted to the work of MM Serra: Film-Makers’ Co-operative Executive Director Emeritus, teacher, mentor, and artist. That list of titles and roles hardly indicates the extraordinary breadth of MM’s work, art and interests, her long friendships, rich artist networks, and commitment to diversity, to outsiders, to the flourishing edges. Framework’s celebratory double issue includes testimonials, art pieces, memoirs, biographies, and conversations from friends and colleagues, stitching together a multi-perspectival, layered collage of MM’s life work.

—Drake Stutesman and Susan Potter