Join us for the world premiere of part three of Barbara Hammer's lesbian history trilogy.

Barbara Hammer, prolific experimental filmmaker and documentarian and this year's Frameline Award winner, continues her ongo­ing exploration of lesbian images in society in this compelling, humorous, and empowering contribution to lesbian history. Focusing on pervading images prior to Stonewall, the film exposes not only popular lesbian representa­tions — or misrepresentations — in culture and entertainment but also the controlling characterizations proliferated by the medical, scientific, and legal worlds.

Though some of the images date back to the nineteenth century, this is not merely a history lesson. In true Hammer experimental style — replete with humor, irony, and irrever­ence — it is a recontextualization of lesbian images that portrayed lesbian behavior as "illicit" and lesbians as mannish, neurotic, and cold outsiders.

In revealing montage, Hammer juxtapos­es and morphs dramatic vignettes, reminis­cent of 1940s crime scene photographer WeeGee, commercials, and archival footage from narrative, medical, and educational films. As it defies the intended meanings of popular lesbian images, History Lessons reclaims and rewrites lesbian history in Hammer's most comprehensive documentary yet — if you can imagine that.