• Hide and Seek

  • If Every Girl Had a Diary

  • Blue Diary

  • Home Movie



Hide and Seek

Su Friedrich
United States, 1996
  • Introduction
    Jenni Olson

    Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org—which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LGBTQ+ cinema.

featuring

Chelsea Holland, Ariel Mara, Linzy Taylor, Sarah Jane Smith, Alicia Manta,

Mining her own experience as a young girl for Hide and Seek, Su Friedrich daringly immerses her viewer in her own 1960s adolescence via the uncharted angle of a tweenage lesbian awakening. Constructed narrative moments are mixed with documentary interviews with lesbians of various ages discussing their burgeoning lesbian identities alongside archival footage of fascinatingly outmoded sex education films likely seen by Friedrich herself in her middle school classroom.

K.J. Relth-Miller
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Su Friedrich
  • Cathy Nan Quinlan
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 16mm
  • 63 mins
Source
  • Canyon Cinema
Preceded By

Home Movie

Jan Oxenberg, United States, 1975

Jan Oxenberg’s first film is often cited as one of the first lesbian feminist films.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 12 mins
source
  • Janus Films
Additional Info
  • New 4K Restoration by IndieCollect, made possible with funding from Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

If Every Girl Had a Diary

Sadie Benning, United States, 1990

Using a Pixelvision toy video camera and everyday objects, Sadie Benning crafted intimate, performative explorations of their own coming-of-age as a young lesbian.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • B&W
  • Digital
  • 8 mins
source
  • Video Data Bank

Blue Diary

Jenni Olson, United States, 1998

In this elegiac film of San Francisco views, an anonymous diarist recounts her unrequited attraction to a heterosexual woman.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 6 mins
source
  • BAMPFA
permission
  • Frameline Distribution