Lesbian Cinema by Barbara Hammer: “When a Kiss is not a Kiss but Nitrate“

Intimacy, sex, community, and the body appear in Barbara Hammer’s films within an interweaving of testimony and staging: she does more than simply document lesbian life. Over the course of five decades, Hammer has created a previously unseen repertoire of motifs, symbols, and techniques—thereby defying (film) historical omissions.

Audience
Dir.: Barbara Hammer | UK/US/CA 1985 | 32 min.

Women I Love
Dir.: Barbara Hammer | US 1976 | 23 min.

Double Strength
Dir.: Barbara Hammer | US 1978 | 14 min.

Generations
Dir.: Barbara Hammer | US 2010 | 30 min.