Barbara Forever

In the 1970s, Hammer was one of the first openly lesbian American directors to make avant-garde films about lesbian desire and sexuality. Dyke poetry in this documentary on American filmmaker and queer activist Barbara Hammer. During the 1970s she was one of the first openly lesbian filmmakers in her country who made avant-garde films about lesbian desire and sexuality. Barbara Hammer, who was a member of the second wave of feminism, ambitiously dedicated her entire life to fighting for queer acceptance. A pioneer of queer cinema, Hammer (1939 – 2019) started making films aged 27, and came out as a lesbian in her early 30s: “My life was lived on film”. The enormous wealth of footage about her life constitutes the basis for Barbara Forever, Brydie O’Connor’s feature film debut that does justice to Barbara’s stunning, charismatic personality.