Age 12: Love with a Little L

Synopsis

This film is depicts early lesbian sexuality, using reenacted scenes from the experience of a 12-year old girl as the platform for a meditation on forbidden desire, transgression, and Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of identity formation. Raw adolescent memories counterpoint staged scenes, exploring mechanisms of power and submission.

Director

Jennifer Montgomery

Studio

Women Make Movies

Released

12 July 1991

Genres

Documentary