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Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today. Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau). Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone. Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。这部游走于回溯和想象，文字和移动影像之间的创作是基于电影的电影，也是将电影和电影装置（apparatus）再物质化的尝试。在一次去德黑兰的考察中，艺术家和共同写作者重访了在1979年伊朗伊斯兰革命中被焚烧的电影院“一条街”，他们把革命前的伊朗电影和电影院场所作为分析地缘政治和石油政治的透镜。文字、档案、移动影像、电影素材和声音被穿插在真实与虚构的叙述结构中，展现了 “无声的” 历史操纵以及后革命时期伊朗社会状态。战争、欲望与物质之间的纠缠指向一种人造的末世“失乐园”，同时也从历史层面向观众问询激进革命在哪些层面正在向当下扩散。。
