Watch Tender Fictions (1995) Online

Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of performances. With a Swiss army knife she robs an American Express Bank in Morocco, accosts a shepherd in a field on International Women's Day, and tap dances on Shirley Temple's star on Hollywood Boulevard. This child movie star was the ideal by which Hammer's ambitious mother measured her own Barbie. Grandma, already a cook for Lillian Gish in Hollywood, introduced the cute, loquacious child and her mother to D.W. Griffith. Lesbian autobiography is a slender genre, so Hammer draws from general culture studies for critique and to provide an ironic edge to the synthesized "voices of authority". Read More

Watch Tender Fictions online. Featuring Barbara Hammer, Tender Fictions is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 4.9. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 1995. Tender Fictions was directed by Barbara Hammer. Read Less