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Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories

Soft Fiction

55m

Directed by Chick Strand • 1979 • United States

Made in collaboration with its subjects, Chick Strand’s masterpiece SOFT FICTION gives five women the space to, in Strand’s words, perform “an exorcism of [an] experience.” Strand captures the slippery, vivid memories of erotic fantasy, confusing sexual encounters, addiction, incest, and historical trauma, laying bare narrative’s dual function of expressing and containing experience.

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