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G-Spotting, A Story of Pleasure and Promise
■Content G-Spotting, A Story of Pleasure and Promise 2011 ｜Canada, France｜Documentary｜ Color ｜ 52min How, in 2011, can there still exist myths around female sexuality? How is it the mere mention of this erotic region provokes such argument, doubt, and salacious laughter? How can this simple erogenous zone, mysteriously identified as the "G spot", be known to all yet... only very few know its location, its physiology or the story of its discovery? A joyful and surprising film, with colorful characters, exploring science, sexual liberation, ideological conflicts, and of course... pleasure. ■Filmmaker Segolene HANOTAUX & Gilles BOVON ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: G-Spotting, A Story of Pleasure and Promise Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
Women Without A Pause: A Universal Reality
■ Content Women Without A Pause: A Universal Reality 2010｜France｜Documentary｜Color｜54 min｜French, English, Japanese, Portugese The film compares the most significant transition in all women's life throughout different cultures. Women from France, Brazil, Japan, Tanzania and U.S.A. share their experiences and remind us that the menopause is a universal reality. ■ Filmmaker Paula Palacios Born in Madrid, and has studied at University of Paris 8, Saint-Denis. France. Women Without A Pause: A Universal Reality is her first documentary work, followed by BARA, L’HÔPITAL DE LA RÉCONCILIATION , THE LAST HUNTER, NEW WALLS and SOMALIS IN UKRAINE. ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: Women Without A Pause: A Universal Reality+Freeheld Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
History Lessons
■ Content History Lessons 2000 | USA | Documentary | Color | 70min | English In this wonderfully irreverent yet empowering film, Barbara Hammer traces lesbian history by presenting an extraordinary array of archival footage – and then playfully manipulates it to make it seem as though lesbians were everywhere. From popular films to newsreels, sex ed pics, stag reels, medical and educational films, old nudies and more, History Lessons reclaims and rewrites lesbian history. ■ Filmmaker Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She is a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She has made over 80 moving image works in a career that spans 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: Out in South Africa+History Lessons Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
The Female Closet
■ Content The Female Closet 2006 | USA | Documentary | Color | 55min | English "We doe call the most secret place in the house appropriate unto our owne private studies . . . a closet." This 60 minutes documentary film records the lesbian life of three female artists, Alice Austen, Hannah Höch and Nicole Eisenman. The content and footage of this film covers from original reports, personal photos to newly discovered home movies and visual sources across the century. The film finds its enlightenment and answer to its audience about the closet culture, through the observation of the closeted and not-so-closeted lives of these three women artists. ■ Filmmaker Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She is a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She has made over 80 moving image works in a career that spans 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: The Female Closet+Tender Fiction Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
Tender Fiction
■ Content Tender Fictions 1995 | USA | Documentary | Color | 58min | English Innovative, funny, and historic, TENDER FICTIONS is an autobiographical exploration of the search for and meaning of gay community. From a childhood spent being groomed as the next Shirley Temple to her current work as an activist and maker of over 70 films and videos, groundbreaking filmmaker Barbara Hammer casts a wry eye on her life and changing world. In a rich montage of home movies, experimental films, news footage, and personal photographs, Hammer charts her growth from 1950's child star "wannabe" to 1960's straight earth mother to 1990's lesbian artist and activist. Documenting how Hammer's personal and artistic development grew out of and became a part of the feminist, gay, and AIDS activist movements, TENDER FICTIONS is both the story of an extraordinary filmmaker and a compelling portrait of the changes wrought by a generation of women. ■ Filmmaker Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She is a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She has made over 80 moving image works in a career that spans 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: The Female Closet+Tender Fiction Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
Out in South Africa
■ Content Out in South Africa 1994 | USA | Documentary | Color | 54min Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian, from townships, cities and rural areas who speak of their lives and desires as homosexuals in post-apartheid South Africa. ■ Filmmaker Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She is a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She has made over 80 moving image works in a career that spans 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: Out in South Africa+History Lessons Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
