History Lessons
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 11, 2002
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Barbara Hammer |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Here Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles.
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Village Voice
What this in-your-face filmmaker has done is take historical newsreel footage, music, and vintage lesbian porn and cut it into a hard-hitting, visually enchanting, clitorally stimulating art piece that makes you think every woman . . . was a dyke.
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PopcornQ
A one-note experience, more memorable for what it sets out to accomplish than what it actually does.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Devoid of voice-over commentary but still remarkably lucid, her gleeful reconstruction of the past also serves to celebrate the more progressive climate today.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/5 --
The clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring.
New York Times
While the film is intermittently fascinating, the big problem here is that nothing is explained and no one is identified.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 3.5/5 --
An intelligent, satirical presentation of how misdirected the media is in defining lesbians.
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Filmcritic.com
Product Description:
Barbara Hammer (NITRATE KISSES) spent most of her 30-year career making experimental films with a strong lesbian identity. Therefore, this historical manipulation is a logical addition to Hammer's canon. Here, Hammer has taken footage from lesbian history and subverted it using voice over and juxtaposition to create a satiric view of the history of lesbian visibility. Her techniques create a documentary that makes the claim that lesbians were dominating society. Using everything from educational films, newsreels, and stag pictures, HISTORY LESSONS is an interesting study in truth versus reality.
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