Chase's most widely shown work is a series of 30-minute video dramas regarding older women's autonomy, titled "By Herself". "Table for One" (1985), stars Geraldine Page in a voice-over monologue of a woman uneasy about dining alone, followed by "Dear Papa" (1986), starring Anne Jackson and her daughter Roberta Wallach. The third video was "A Dancer" (1987). "Still Frame" (1988) featured Priscilla Pointer and Robert Symonds. "Sophie" (1989) featured Joan Plowright as a woman who has just left her philandering husband to become "Sophie, reader of French tarot cards". The first two videos were presented at the Berlin and London Film Festivals in 1985 and 1986. "Dear Papa" won First Prize at Paris' 1986 "Women's International Film Festival".