Jan Oxenberg

Jan Oxenberg is an American lesbian filmmaker who was a pioneering figure in queer experimental cinema of the 1970s, known for A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts (1975), a witty, subversive short that satirized lesbian stereotypes at a time when lesbian representation in film was essentially nonexistent. Her short Home Movie (1973) was among the earliest personal documentary films by an openly lesbian filmmaker. Oxenberg later worked in television and documentary filmmaking and her early short films are regularly screened in queer film studies courses as foundational texts.