Barbara Hammer x BEEF screening

Barbara Hammer is a legend and pioneer of things queer and experimental, yet her films are barely accessible. Hammer died in March this year and this screening of her best known work Nitrate Kisses will be an ode, a celebration, and an opportunity to unite as a community, sharing thoughts, ideas, and issues. This event promotes queer visibility and confronts film history's tendency to exclude the marginalised.

About the film...

In her first feature, after decades as a pioneer of lesbian cinema, Barbara Hammer weaves striking images of four contemporary gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed, forbidden, and invisible history, searching eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of queer culture. Questions of historic representation are examined through addressing the margins, between-the-line readings, and images outside of prescribed textual boundaries. Archival footage from Lot In Sodom (1933), often regarded as the first queer film made in the United States, as well as footage from German narrative and documentary films of the thirties, are interwoven with contemporary footage in this multi-faceted, haunting documentary.

"Nitrate Kisses questions how history is recorded and encourages the viewer, gay or straight, to save scraps, letters, books, records, and snapshots in order to preserve our 'ordinary' lives as history." — Barbara Hammer

CLIP - https://vimeo.com/2883381

Working together with animator and filmmaker Vicky Smith, member of Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film collective (BEEF), we will hold a 16mm projection of Nitrate Kisses, and screen a few short films from BEEF members (to be announced), followed by a panel discussion and time for audience Q&A.

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This will be a crowdfunded event and the funds are still being raised! So please donate, share, spread the word and spread the love.

Crowdfunding link --> https://www.leetchi.com/c/barbara-hammer-screening-nitrate-kisses

TICKETS £5 available through eventbrite (link below) or at the door. Please get in touch if you cannot afford this and we can figure it out.

https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/barbara-hammer-screening-nitrate-kisses-tickets-64969025103