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Due to adverse weather conditions, Alake Shilling's inflatable sculpture Buggy Bear Crashes Made in L.A. is temporarily off view.

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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