Test Patterns. 1979. USA. Written and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Digital. 10 min.
Commercials for Forming a Sculpture Drama in Manhattan. 1974. USA. Written and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Digital. 2 min.
A Commercial for Myself. 1978. USA. Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Digital. 2 min.
Lynn Turning Herself into Roberta. 1975. USA. Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Digital. 5 min.
25 Windows: A Portrait of Bonwit Teller. 1976. USA. Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Digital. 16 min.
Desire, Inc. 1990. USA. Written and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Digital. 26 min.
From a televised interview with a witness of the Kennedy assassination to fake commercials with people named Lynn Hershman, the artist transforming into Roberta Breitmore (a character she played in real life for several years, with her own driver’s license, credit cards, and psychiatrist), a tour of window displays created for the Bonwit Teller department store in New York, and “seduction ads” for cable TV, this selection of shorts shows the multidisciplinary nature of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s work and how it explores—and humorously questions—our perception of reality as consumers of various media forms.
Total running time: 61 minutes