Barbara Forever

The timeless spirit of the late film auteur, Barbara Hammer, comes to life in this TEDDY award-winning documentary. Since Barbara’s birth, which she marked as the moment she became a lesbian in the ’70s, Barbara wielded a camera that forged an expansive lens for lesbian cinema. Barbara created one of the first lesbian sexuality films in American history, Dyketactics (1974). While critics at the time dubbed her as “too lesbian for the avant-garde” and vice-versa, Barbara was overcome with the urgency to create. Her experimental films on the body, women, and relationships were meant to be legacies of queer life, despite censorship.

Narrated in her own voice, Barbara Forever embodies the energy and lyricism of the 90+ works she achieved in decades. Brydie O’Connor’s debut feature is a tour-de-force archive of an artist who never stopped creating. Once more, “a poet of images” gives a love letter to dreamers.