Barbara Forever

A sublime exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer – revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to create and record lesbian histories, personal and societal. Driven by her canon of over eighty films, a vast collection of unreleased archival materials, and extensive audio interviews, BARBARA FOREVER tells Hammer’s story through her own voice and visual perspective.

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.