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If we're experimenting with our lives and the way we're going to live, our film and our art should also be experimental. it breaks tradition, and makes you think in a broader way. It's the way I experience the world. – Barbara Hammer
Barbara Forever explores the films, archive, and ongoing cultural impact of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to create and record lesbian histories, personal and societal. Through her own images and words, the film centers Hammer as a prism of the cultural ecosystems around her – through the feminist and queer movements in 1970s San Francisco, the male-dominated New York art world of the 1980s, the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s, and expanded LGBTQIA+ representation in art and culture in the 2000s.
Driven by her canon of over eighty films, a vast collection of unreleased archival materials – hundreds of hours of footage, personal photographs and ephemera, and extensive audio interviews – Barbara Forever tells Hammer's story through her own voice and visual perspective, making her the expert on her life, vision, and motivations.
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"A veritable goldmine of queer cinema history, and a film worthy of its peerless subject.” – IndieWire
As part of our See Change initiative, we strive to showcase the work of women and non-binary individuals and their behind-the-scenes involvement in a production.
This film is directed and produced by Brydie O'Connor, produced by Claire Edelman, and features music composed by Taul Katz.
