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Still from the film "Nitrate Kisses" (1992), showing two naked women lying face down, one on top of the other, both smiling.
Screenings

Fireworks / Seascape / At Least You Know You Exist / Nitrate Kisses

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Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s Pioneers of Queer Cinema screening series. Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.

Three short films from Kenneth Anger, Mike Kuchar, and Zackary Drucker screen before a showing of the 1992 debut feature film from lesbian feminist filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer (1939-2019).

Q&A with filmmaker Zackary Drucker and Florrie Burke, widow of Barbara Hammer.

Program

  • Fireworks (1947, dir. Kenneth Anger, 35mm, color, 13 min.)
  • Seascape (1984, dir. Mike Kuchar, digital, color, 10 min.)
  • At Least You Know You Exist (2011, dir. Zackary Drucker, digital, color, 16 min.)
  • Nitrate Kisses (1992, dir. Barbara Hammer, 16mm, color, 67 min.)

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