Heavenly Creatures presented by Queer/Art/Film, curated by JD Samson
Directed by Peter Jackson
99min/1994/New Zealand/English
Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
SCREENING WITH
Dyketactics
Directed by Barbara Hammer
4min/1974/USA/English
Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its exploration of lesbian identity, desire and aesthetic. Abdellatif Kechiche, director of last year’s sexually sensationalist Blue Is the Warmest Colour, might have done better if he had taken a leaf out of Hammer’s book. Hammer calls the film her ‘lesbian commercial’.
- Selina Robertson, “Ten Great Lesbian Films”
(http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-lesbian-films)