The Female Closet History Lesson is a 60-minute documentary that uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian histories of artists Alice Austen, Hannah Höch and Nicole Eisenman. Utilizing groundbreaking research, newly discovered home movies, archival photographs, and other visual sources, The Female Closet, is a cultural interrogation of the closeted and not-so-closeted lives of three women artists.
For contemporary lesbian representation, the “closet” has been one of the most vexed and complicated institutions of lesbian history. The closet mentality is largely responsible for relegating the simple fact of one’s sexual preference to the realm of gossip and innuendo encouraging homophobic attacks. An exploration of lesbian history involves a complex negotiation of visibility, secrecy, codes and knowledge: Hammer continues her groundbreaking work in lesbian history with this informative and entertaining documentary.
60 minutes, color, sound, 1998
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