Hide and Seek

Independent experimental filmmaker Su Friedrich (Damned if You Don't) mixes interviews, archival educational film clips, and a fictional narrative to explore the experience of sexual awakening in Hide and Seek. The women Friedrich interviewed are lesbians, who describe childhood experiences in which ...more

If Su Friedrich's Hide and Seek is not the definitive statement on what it means to grow up a lesbian, it's only because, as the film makes clear, such a statement is impossible to make. Friedrich's interviewees offer a wide variety of experiences of sexual awakening -- some painful, and some comical. Some were tomboys, while some were comfortable in more traditional feminine roles. The childhood photos and old home movies interspersed through the film offer more evidence of the variety of ...more