ABSTRACT
As an experimental filmmaker and lesbian feminist, I have advocated that radical content deserves radical form. In 1979 I had my first screening outside the supportive lesbian feminist community when Terry Cannon, then programmer at Film Forum in Los Angeles, asked me to show my films in a venue of experimental films. I had already completed several experimental films of lesbian feminist content and had shown them regularly in the Bay Area of San Francisco. They were also distributed by early women’s film cooperatives. In both cases I was called upon to explain my unorthodox form and content. To the feminist community, I introduced my films in light of the formal concerns of experimental filmmaking. To the experimental film community, I spoke about the importance of unrepresented content.
