A Film by Barbara Hammer
(Nitrate Kisses, Tender Fictions)
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.
Barbara Hammer has made 80 films and videos in her 30-year career, and is responsible
for some of the first lesbian-made films in history.
"Witty, giddy, unexpected, cheeky & subversive...a shameless imaginative
assertion of Gay Pride throughout the 20th Century, one that identifies, invents
and/or smirkingly implies gleeful lesbian sexuality in every cultural nook and
cranny. It's all quite delightful!" -Variety
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