Menses
- Barbara Hammer |
- 1974 |
- 4 minutes |
- COLOR |
- SOUND
Rental Format(s): 16mm film
A wry comedy on the ironic aspects of menstruation where women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. MENSES combines both the imagery and the politics of menstruation in a fine blend of comedy and drama.
Preservation print of Menses made in 2018 available from Canyon Cinema. Exhibitors of this print must include the following preservation credit:
This film was preserved by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.