Tender Fictions

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Documentary

Overview

Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of performances. With a Swiss army knife she robs an American Express Bank in Morocco, accosts a shepherd in a field on International Women's Day, and tap dances on Shirley Temple's star on Hollywood Boulevard. This child movie star was the ideal by which Hammer's ambitious mother measured her own Barbie. Grandma, already a cook for Lillian Gish in Hollywood, introduced the cute, loquacious child and her mother to D.W. Griffith. Lesbian autobiography is a slender genre, so Hammer draws from general culture studies for critique and to provide an ironic edge to the synthesized "voices of authority".

Details

Status: Released
Release date: March 15, 1995
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Barbara Hammer
Director: Barbara Hammer
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0114646