Film Categories: Work about Women

  • One, two, three, dusk

    “ONE, TWO, THREE, DUSK” is a visual and auditory exploration of one woman’s life and relationships in three parts from birth to motherhood to death.

  • Milchwolken Liebe (Milky Clouds Love)

    “My balcony is my boat. Today is the 1st of May and it’s pretty loud in Kreuzberg. And hot. Shit helicopters. Get off! Now the summer can begin.” So starts Dagie Brundert’s evocation of languorous summer days. Puffy white clouds pass by in a blue sky, and milky clouds of cream in her coffee trigger memories of childhood. Past and present converge.

  • L.U.G.S.

    Revolving around a group of twentysomething lesbians attending university in a big city, “L.U.G.S.” is a short film that deals with themes of discovery, romance, sexuality, and friendship.

  • Golden Years

    Eve, an unhappy but successful sex worker who is saving money for surgery, discovers an abandoned baby. With the good but poorly formulated intentions of Joe – a strange client with a Christmas fetish – the couple decide to raise the baby.

  • Frischluft-Therapie (Fresh Air Therapy)

    German couple Petra and Kerstin are spending another unpleasant session with their counselor when a power failure and natural body functions bring them closer together. Winner of the Dorothy’s Shoe Award from The Merlinka International Queer Film Festival (Belgrade) 2010. Audience Award Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2010. Audience Award, Perlen Filmfestival Hannover 2010, Audience Award ‘Made in Germany’ Hamburg International Queer Film Festival.

  • Immature

    After moving apartments, Paula and Sue are experiencing strife in their relationship. Sue, ever the fixer, decides that the way to make Paula happy is to get married, but Paula finds her own resolution.

  • Rockin’ The Rainbow

    Abby has just had her first sexual experience with a woman and confides in her older, outspokenly lesbian sister Emma, expecting some kind of sound advice…

  • Ampoule Brulee, L’

    This short film is a poetic meditation on the end of life as represented by the filmmaker’s grandmother. The grandmother, in her rocking chair, reaches out for the single light that illuminates her, expressing her determination and also, as the light goes out, the reconciliation to her own death.

  • Wheel, The

    A mother breastfeeds her child. A woman peels an orange. Originally created for installation, “The Wheel” has also screened as a single-channel video work.

  • Doll House

    In “Doll House”, Barbara Hammer captures an echo of the militant feminism that informed her earlier work. “Doll House” was released in the U.S. along with four of her other short films as a feature-length package, “Lesbian Humor: The Films of Barbara Hammer, Volume I” (Planet Out).