A former teacher at the School of the MFA, Barbara Hammer is peerless in her career that spans over three decades as an experimental filmmaker focusing on the lesbian world. In a compelling, humorous, and empowering contribution to lesbian history, her most recent effort recontextualizes images that portray lesbian behavior as illicit, mannish, and perverse. By defying the intended meanings of these popular lesbian images taken from narrative, medical, education and adult entertainment films dating back to the nineteenth century, History Lessons reclaims and rewrites lesbian history without shame. Wonderfully playful, History Lessons is an irreverent reconstruction, a filmic lesbian history that dates back to the very dawn of cinema itself.

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Audience award winner at five festivals, Crush by Phillip Bartell (2000, 29 min) is set during a long hot summer in a (very) small town in rural Illinois, as 12-year-old Tina bonds with 16-year-old Robbie over their favorite TV show. Tina soon develops a major crush on Robbie. Robbie, however, develops a crush of his own… The Mountain King by Duncan Tucker is a sensuously photographed film that depicts a relationship between a persuasive hustler and a quietly closeted young man at the beach. …lost by Dan Castle was made in response to growing complacency about the continuing threat of AIDS and captures a day in the life of a young man foundering in a world of drugs, anonymous tricks, and AIDS. When Joseph asks his lifelong partner, Caesar, to send for a priest in The Confession by Carl Pfirman, it leads to a dramatic struggle in this moving exploration of love, faith and commitment.

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