Frida Kahlo of the Guerrilla Girls, who are in thier own words, "a group of women artists, writers, performers and film makers who fight discrimination. Dubbing ourselves the conscience of culture, we declare ourselves feminist counterparts to the mostly male tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Batman, and the Lone Ranger. We wear gorilla masks to focus on the issues rather than our personalities. We use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny."

Actions they’ve taken include poster and sticker campaigns at well known film events such as the Oscars and Sundance film festival to highlight the fact that, “The number of women and people of color working behind the scenes in Hollywood as directors, writers, sound engineers, editors and cinematographers is really pathetic...as bad as the art world was 15 years ago!”

PC: Just to establish yourself in our minds; could you name your top three of any media (films, books, artwork, web sites, games etc.) that have influenced the work you do?

FK: Mother Teresa, Joan of Arc, Mad Magazine, Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby, Lucille Ball and Abby Hoffman.

PC:To balance it out, what five of any media (can be films,books, artwork, websites, games and so on...) were the worst things you've ever had to experience?

FK: We like to think positive.

PC: How did the Guerrilla Girls come about?

FK:  In 1984 The Museum of Modern Art in New York reopened after a renovation with a show called "An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture." Out of approx 200 artists in the show, fewer than 17 were women and even less were artists of color. It was a travesty and it could not in any way have represented the real story of international art-making. The curator was really arrogant and said that any artist who was not in the exhibition should re-think "his" career. That got us started on figuring out new ways to convince the public that museums, galleries and the art world in general WERE not only discriminating but discriminatory.

PC: What is, in your opinion the most valuable asset of the Guerrilla Girls and why?

FK: Our anonymity is one of our most valuable assets. It has allowed us to observe the workings of the art world (and the world-at-large) from the inside then comment on it from the outside. Being anonymous has also kept us focused and clear: we represent ALL women not our individual selves. There is nothing any one of us could gain from what we do. And there is that tantalizing possibility that we could be any woman, anywhere. We have real Maskulinity.

PC: Do you think filmmaking technology is being driven by the producers of the technology or the people who create the films?

FK: Can't answer that except to say that we HOPE it is driven by people who create the films.

PC: Have you become aware of any particular point in the development of the internet when you decided, "wow, this will change the world!"?

FK: When we received our first letter from a woman in a foreign country who wrote " Dear Guerrilla Girls, tomorrow I must marry a man I have never met. Please help me." The idea that she could find us in cyberspace when she was unable to control the most basic part of her real-time life told us that there was something special going on.

PC: Are there any current developments that you see as a threat to online filmmaking (with online films, we mean film made for the Internet!)?

FK: Don't know much about that, either, cause we'd love to make a film about our activities and we haven't quite figured out how to do it.

PC: Where do you see the Guerrilla Girls heading in the future?

FK: We see our on-line presence increasing. WE PLAN TO DO more on-line political actions like gettintg movie goers to download stickers about discrimination in the film industry and put them up in the bathrooms of their local movie theaters. We'd like to have an on line FORUM between GIRLS who write to us about their frustration with the "LOOKISM" fed them by the media and CULTURAL ACTIVISTS who ARE DEVISING strategies to cope with the RIDICULOUS messages they receive from TV, magazines and film. We'd also like to do a documentary film about our work over the years and maybe even a dramatic TV series about a group of feminist masked avengers who can swoop in and solve female problems everywhere, like rescuing that woman from her unwanted marriage.

PC: On the same lines, where do you see the future of online filmmaking in general, heading?

FK: Conglomerates control so much of the media today. We must use the internet to counter act their influence and make all the varieties of culture available, not just the mainstream version.

PC: Thanks for you time Frida.