Scarlot Harlot Video Festival

Powerful, interracial date rape drama written by and starring performance artist, Dee Dee Russell. Directed by Dee Dee Russell and Scarlot Harlot. Shot and Edited by Scarlot Harlot. A ground breaking... Music videos, sex worker rights documentaries and satiric bits, Scarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s.

This 50 second trailer is from the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival. The Festival was established in 1999 to provide a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker artists and filmmakers and to show work about sex workers and sex industries from around the world. The Sex Worker Festival provides an opportunity to recognize and honor prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers who have historically been a dynamic part of arts communities. The Festival includes performance events, parties and art exhibitions as well as screenings. The 2007 Festival is held in conjunction with the Desiree Alliance San Francisco West Coast Convergence, a sex worker conference, taking place at The Women's Building July 19th and 20th.This year marks our 5th biennial event and the response by sex workers has been greater than ever before.

This is a music video from Scarlot Harlot's TV series 'Whore in The Gulf,' during the first Gulf war. In response to the networks' censorship and the nationalistic zeal, Leigh produced weekly coverage the Bay Area anti-war movement during the Gulf War. In the series San Francisco protesters discussed world peace, the growth of fascism in America, and activism in the nineties. Peace-positive propaganda, CNN...revised and improved. SUNREICH, SUNSETUP, a music video featuring Scarlot Harlot and Barbara Bush plays to the tune of Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on a Roof. Note to Harry Belafonte fans: Harry happened to be seated next to Barbara Bush at an event, however he was a dedicated humanitarian and no war monger. This was an inadvertent reference! Screened at AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE 'S NATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL, FILM ARTS FESTIVAL (S.F.), WOW CAFE (N.Y.) (Music video is 4.30. Series is 30 min. /4 episodes-1991)

This remarkable trio called the Yeastie Girlz from 1988 were at the forefront of new modes of musical performance. This clip comes from Scarlot Harlot's Die Yuppie Scum, named after another Yeastie Girlz song. In this safe sex rap the Girlz explain the necessity of condom use. The movie, winner 'Best Documentary at Athens International Film Festival,' was a documentary of the 1988 Anarchist Conference in San Francisco. Visit yeastiegirlz.com for more info.

The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival has screen over 150 films since 1998. Films focus on sex; prostitutes' rights; organizing efforts and working conditions for strippers; more sex; global sex work and sex work as a labor issue on the international agenda; sex workers as heroes and heroines; sex workers as saints; sex workers as jerks and perverts; sex work and gender identities; queer sex workers; sex education; sex art; sex panic; sexual orientation; sexual identity; porn and erotica; portraits of strippers, prostitutes, doms, madams and much more.

Safe Sex Slut is a music video, made in 1987, expressing the frustration and challenges of changing ones sexual habits in the wake of the AIDS crisis. This video is part of a longer collection of... Music videos, sex worker rights documentaries and satiric bits, Scarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s.

Scarlot and P.O.N.Y. (Prostitutes of New York) engage in civil disobedience on Wall Street. Music videos, sex worker rights documentaries and satiric bits, Scarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s.

Mom says "Use a prophylcatic"Mom's politically correct advice on safe sex.

Introducing Scarlot Harlot. Music videos, sex worker rights documentaries and satiric bits, Scarlot Harlot coined the term "sex work" in the late 70s.

80s Safe Sex Anthem, 3 min music video about frustration in the AIDS crisis.