USA,
1994, 30 min
Shown in 1994
CREDITS
- dir
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Lynn Hershman
- premiere
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World Premiere
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COMMENTS
Screened as part of retrospective tribute. Lynn Hershman in person at 1994 Festival.
OTHER
Part five of The Electronic Diary, in which Hershman expands the autobiographical to directly involve the strength and voicings of other women. Arranged marriage, the Vietnam War, child rearing, the furies and survivors of the Holocaust—all come under Hershman's gaze as she recovers memory to courageously conjure a new place in the future.
FACTOID #109
Though the film had won two major awards at the Berlin Film Festival, John Cassavetes’ Love Streams was pulled from the SFIFF program at the last minute by the distributor. According to Cassavetes, MGM/UA was concerned that showing Streams, which the director himself proclaimed ’a crazy film,’ at the SFIFF might hurt the film’s box office upon wider release
