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We are proud to present part two of Frameline Award winner Barbara Hammer's lesbian history trilogy, Tender Fictions. Tender Fictions is a stunning work that blurs the lines between emotion and intellect, truth and fiction, while creating an engaging and empowering vision of Hammer's own history.
Exploring the exhilarating and intimate tales ofthe artist as a young lesbian — and of the lesbian as a young artist — Hammer underscores her life of performances. She robs an American Express Bank in Morocco with a Swiss Army knife, accosts a shepherd in a field on International Women's Day, and tap dances on Shirley Temple's star on Hollywood Boulevard. Temple was the ideal by which Hammer's ambitious mother measured her own "Barbie." Grandma, a cook for Lillian Gish, introduced the cute, loquacious child and her mother to D.W. Griffith.
Drawing from many general cultural studies to create her own lesbian autobiogra phy (before someone else did it for her), Hammer critiques our culture's homogenous "voices of authority" without losing her sense of irony. Using personal footage of activist milestones, Hammer also challenges a younger generation to visualize a world which existed before they did.