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Lesbian and female bisexual
Directors
have had an important and continuing impact on both
Documentary
and dramatic Film. Several have helped
combat lesbian invisibility and empower women by raising lesbian and
feminist issues in their work. |
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Barbara Hammer
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Chantal Akerman
(b. 1950)
is an innovative Belgian filmmaker who creates films that are at once
experimental and personal and that often feature lesbian content. |
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Dorothy Arzner
(1900-1979) was the only woman
director in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood. She made films that convey the
varieties of women's experiences and desires and the tenacity of
women's relationships with other women.
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Lizzie Borden
(b. 1958) brings a feminist perspective and a dynamic authenticity to
her films about the unexplored politics of women's lives. |
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Lynne Fernie
(b. 1946) has had a varied career in the arts, but is best known as the
co-director of the celebrated 1992 documentary Forbidden Love: The
Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives. |
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Barbara Hammer
(b. 1939) is the most prolific lesbian feminist filmmaker in
history. Her films have carefully considered political and theoretical
underpinnings and are among the most thoughtful and unabashed
celebrations of queer life in cinema. |
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Ulrike Ottinger
(b. 1942) is an avant-garde German filmmaker who creates both
fictional fantasy worlds that shatter traditional gender constructions
and documentaries that examine marginalized peoples. |
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 Patricia Rozema
(b. 1958)
is a Canadian filmmaker known for imbuing her films with feminist
analysis and sensual cinematography. |
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Monika Treut
(b. 1954) is a
German filmmaker who consistently explores challenging and
controversial issues surrounding minority sexual and gender identities. |
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Rose Troche
(b. 1964) has helped
to make lesbians more
visible onscreen, not as women tortured by their sexuality, but as
individuals for whom female homosexuality is comfortable and, indeed,
normal. |
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Film Actors: Gay
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Lesbians
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Photo
Credits:
Photograph of Barbara Hammer courtesy
Barbara
Hammer Films. Image of Patricia Rozema courtesy office of Patricia
Rozema. |
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