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".
Barbara Hammer
Director
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds74%
Cameraperson67%
I Am Ali67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Love, Marilyn66%
Love, Gilda72%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Maidentrip70%
Making 'The Shining'71%
Heart of a Dog65%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Sidney70%
Seduced and Abandoned61%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Girl Model65%
Corman's World70%
Maria by Callas73%
