A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts (1975)

Jan Oxenbergs charmingly raw politicallycharged and remarkably funny celebration of the American lesbian experience validates the nuanced voice of a community otherwise underrepresented in the Wild West of mid70s 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 selfaware yet playful depictions of common stereotypes such as the Stompin Dyke or the butchfemme couple In the process Oxenbergs short film reclaims those insults and assumptions as newfound loaded weaponsto deploy on her own terms of course UCLA Film Television Archive