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  Review by fran cesca ★★★★ 3

  Small little puzzle box of a film Barbara Hammer has made here. We contain multitudes of emotions, one way to look at it. We're all trapped in / wrapped up in ourselves and our perception is another thought I had.

  The imagery of children seems to imply we all have a child within us, and never advance all that much emotionally.

  This film appears to be made earlier than Dyketactics, but Barbara Hammer's soundtrack here is way more complex, I would have thought this would have been after Dyketactics.

  There's probably artist statements and whatnot that explain the film more, but I'm not a big intellectual and don't really wanna read that stuff.

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  Review by Ari_Beri ★★★★★

  "These are the children I'm happy not to have." Absolute queen

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  Review by Liz ★★

  Barbara hammer adding a jerking off scene once a minute in every work like it’s a required ad break

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  Review by sadbenaffleck ★★★★

  THIS IS MY PAIN
  Incredibly sprawling and ambitious wackass short that’s at its best when Hammer is going around terrorizing people.

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  Review by Lydia Roberts ★★★

  My first of Hammer's films after having so badly to watch them, previously unavailable due to their obscurity (even if she is regarded as among the best experimental filmmakers, feminist filmmakers, etc.); managing to find it here.

  I don't love everything that Hammer's doing, to be totally honest I don't even actively like it, but there's a lot to love, respect, and appreciate in what she's doing. With frequent chants of "I" and "this is my exhibitionism", "this is my anger", "this is my pain", etc. she is violently asserting her own, and by extension women's, right(s) to exist in each and every form -- that their characters are made up of so much and that they are free to do whatever they want with themselves ("these are the children I'm glad I don't have"). Punchy and radical.

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  Review by sophie ★★★

  what

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  Review by Arlo ♱ ★★★½

  great short which conveys a variety of emotions

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  Review by sethbgvt ★★★½ 1

  As I delve into these short films by Barbara Hammer, I’m struck by the ease that I can watch these as a male. But I also feel discomfort in knowing as part of the white patriarchal society, I contributed to her discomfort and eventual rage about who she was as a person viewed in our society.

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  Review by Steve Carlson ★★★★

  A bold and striking exploration of the director's sense of self that features the director dual-wielding samurai swords while wearing a basketball over her head.

  Like I wasn't going to love this.

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  Review by 🏚️ 1

  I didnt watch this because i could not find it anywhere just posting review in hopes someone will tell me where its hiding thanks

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  Review by ussef

  “this is my childhood. this is my exhibitionism. these are the children i’m happy not to have. this is my mother. this is my anger. this is my pain. this is my comfort. this is my transportation.”

  cinema has always been queer, weird and messy and i love that

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  Review by Gabriela González ★★★★★

  I need to watch this high