Barbara Hammer: Love Is Where You Find It (1978)
77 minutes
The erotic unfurls as a vital force connecting self, lover, and collective. Barbara Hammer left behind a monumental body of work unified in its fiercely political perspective and bold exploration of lesbian life. Her earliest short films materialized from the ashes of postwar American life, as long-established virtues of womanhood were being rejected and a new vision was beginning to form. As Hammer put it in her own memoir: "The 70s were a glorious time of feminist ideals and lesbian bed-hopping." These works spotlight Hammer's sustained investment in collective queer worldmaking, mobilizing eroticism as a social force inseparable from emergent forms of lesbian visibility and activist formation.