The Female Closet (1998)

The Female Closet

1998

Documentary History

Synopsis

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists Alice Austen, Hannah Höch and Nicole Eisenman. Utilizing groundbreaking research, newly discovered home movies, and archival photographs, and other visual sources, The Female Closet is a cultural interrogation of the closeted and not-so-closeted lives of three women artists.

Credits

Director

Barbara Hammer

Cast

Alice Austen as Self (archival foootage)

Barbara Hammer as Self

Hannah Höch as Self (archival foootage)

Nicola Tyson as Self

Nicole Eisenman as Self

Sarah Dezuttere as Self / Interviewer

Crew

Paul Hill (Assistant Editor)