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A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts

Name: A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts
Director: Jan Oxenberg
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1975-01-01
Duration: 27 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Evan Paxton, Sue Talbot, Jan Oxenberg, Susan Gluck, Jacci Weller

19750h 27m7.0Directed by Jan Oxenberg

Jan Oxenberg’s charmingly raw, politically-charged and remarkably funny celebration of the American lesbian experience validates the nuanced voice of a community otherwise underrepresented in the Wild West of mid-’70s independent filmmaking. In an attempt to combat the pervasive misconception of the “humorless, angry feminist,” the vignettes in A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts experiment with self-aware yet playful depictions of common stereotypes, such as the “Stompin’ Dyke” or the butch-femme couple. In the process, Oxenberg’s short film reclaims those insults and assumptions as newfound, loaded weapons—to deploy on her own terms, of course. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)

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