DAUGHTER RITE

USA 1979 | Director, Script, Camera, Editor, Production: Michelle Citron | Sound: Sharon Bement, Barbara Roos | Cast: Penelope Victor, Anne Wilford, Jerri Hancock | Colour | 16mm | 53 min | english OV | Women Make Movies

Michelle Citron's film DAUGHTER RITE shows two kinds of relationships: one between a daughter and her mother, and one between two sisters. [...] The rich variation of forms clearly includes narrative, documentary, and experimental elements, though it is all carefully shifted to allow something new and exciting to emerge. [...] The result is an utterly engaging and enjoyable film, stunning in its imagery, that grips us because of its subject matter – which, as M. Citron stresses, "was very meaningful in my own life and has become equally important for the feminist movement". (Jane Clarke and Helen MacKintosh, 1979)

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HOME MOVIE

USA 1973 | Director: Jan Oxenberg | Colour | DCP | 12 min | english OV | IndieCollect

The first film by Jan Oxenberg (THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT) is considered one of the earliest lesbian-feminist films. While talking about the home movies her parents made, Oxenberg ironically recalls her childhood, which was designed entirely around her upbringing as a girl; she juxtaposes these visual memories with contemporary footage of political demonstrations and a women's football game. (Program announcement MoMA, New York, 2020)

The most sustained use of interplay between image and voice is Jan Oxenburg’s HOME MOVIE, in which the film-maker’s voice interrogates her parents’ old home movie footage of her. [...] For the most part, HOME MOVIE seems to be contrasting a contemporary, authentic lesbian self against the inauthentic image of the past. The home movies are introduced by white leader visible on screen and accompanied by the sound of a camera running, underlining that such footage, often considered raw and innocent, is nonetheless ideologically constructed. (Richard Dyer, 1990)

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A COMEDY IN SIX UNNATURAL ACTS

USA 1975 | Director: Jan Oxenberg | b/w | DCP | 26 min | IndieCollect

In 1975 Jan Oxenberg made A COMEDY IN SIX UNNATURAL ACTS, the first (and nearly last) lesbian comedy. As a send-up of both political correctness and homophobic stereotypes, it was ahead of its time. Technically raw and politi-cally sophisticated, it was shot on a shoestring budget and went on to play for years at women’s film festivals and cultural womyn’s evenings. (B. Ruby Rich, 2013)

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FRG Federal Republic of Germany (historic)
BLR Belarus
DE Germany
CAN Canada
GDR German Democratic Republic (historic)
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FR France
GB Great Britain
URY Uruguay
BRA Brasil
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UKR Ukraine
PL Poland
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HRV Croatia
ECU Ecuador
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