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Tender Fictions

Directed by Barbara Hammer1995USA58 mins

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.

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Director
Barbara Hammer
Year
1995
Country
USA
Running Time
58 mins
Language
English
Section
Frameline Award