Christine Choy Double Feature: Inside Women Inside, and To Love, Honor & Obey

Two early short documentaries from

INSIDE WOMEN INDSIDE (1978) – Directors Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio turn their lens on the condition of women at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Correctional Institute for Women at Riker’s Island. Through interviews with these inmates, they give a voice to women society has traditionally not wanted to listen to.

TO LOVE, HONOR & OBEY – This short documentary explores the social, psychological and cultural factors that contribute to violence against women regardless of ethnicity or economic background. Survivors, safe house administrators, counselors, police officers, and male abusers in counseling explore the many factors that contribute to the pervasiveness of this tragic aspect of American family life. Shot in battered women’s shelters, urban and suburban neighborhoods, counseling centers, and even in a county jail where a woman has been incarcerated for the murder of her abusive husband.