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If
the game of hide-and-seek calls to mind nostalgic images of youthful
innocence, then Su Friedrich offers Chels
Holland, in the poignant role of the tomboy Lou, offers a resonant
portrayal of the requisite early-teen A
stunningly successful union of multiple narrative styles, |
Bind*, Su Friedrich is a vital figure in the history of feminist and lesbian/gay film, and maintains an international reputation for her innovations in film form and for her distinctive editing. If through some fluke of fate you haven't seen her films yet, get in line for your ticket fast! |
Awkward emblem of suburban domesticity, the family station
wagon absconds with the camera in *Rules of the Road*, Su Friedrich's alternately deadpan and nostalgic commentary on the fortunes of a lesbian relationship. The director's witty relation to a former girlfriend's 1983 Oldsmobile Wagon, seemingly misplaced as it cruises the streets of New York City, drives home the complexity of the metaphors we use to narrate our desire. It may mean little to say that Americans love their cars, but what happens when cars themselves are mobile meanings--vehicles for love? How do we negotiate, to cite Friedrich, "what makes one car lovable and the other a heartbreak?" The director will give a brief talk after the screening of this program. |
Girls who have wet dreams about insects? ... Four lesbian
shorts from Europe and North America chosen for the second screening of *Hide and Seek* expand Friedrich's theme of childhood and adolescent desires. Andrea Stoops' Adam recounts the basement adventures of a 9-year-old girl-as-boy who takes up with a younger playmate. Marta Balletbo-Coll's Intrepidissima offers a tale of resistance to ormative femininity that is orchestrated through music and sabotage, while in Fran*oise Decaux Thomelet's Pregnant or Lesbian, magic realism provides an erratic negotiation between parental immaturity and adolescent awareness. Finally, queer images and distorted narration give a rough but rich texture to Jennifer Reeves' exquisitely frenetic short on adolescent "perverse" desire and the hostilities it resists. |
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