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    The Female Closet

    Barbara Hammer 2006 USA Documentary color 55min English N/A
    "We doe call the most secret place in the house appropriate unto our owne private studies . . . a closet." Oxford English Dictionary
    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.

    Director

    Barbara Hammer

    Barbara HAMMER was born on May 15, 1939 in California. She received her BA in psychology from UCLA, and she earned her two MA degrees, one in English literature and one in film, from San Francisco State University. She is the pioneer of American queer cinema and recognized as one of the most influential filmmakers in the world. HAMMER is known for creating experimental films engaging gender issues, and she created many lesbian films in history.

    Barbara Hammer

    • 2016 Evidentiary Bodies
      2011 Maya Deren's Sink
      2010 Generations
      2008 A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
      2006 Lover Other: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
      2003 Resisting Paradise
      2000 History Lessons
      1998 The Female Closet
      1995 Tender Fictions
      1994 Out in South Africa
      1992 Nitrate Kisses
      1987 No No Nooky TV
      1976 Multiple Orgasm
      1976 Women I Love
      1976 Superdyke Meets Madame X
      1974 Dyketactics
      1974 Menses
      1974 Women's Rites, or Truth is the Daughter of Time
      1968 Barbara WARDWill Never Die
      1968 Schizy

    Barbara Hammer
    barbarahammer@gmail.com

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