Part of the UCL East Community Cinema collection
Presented by Spectra Queer Non Fiction Films at UCL East - Barbara Hammer’s first feature-length documentary.
Age rating: 18
Content warnings: Sex, nudity, language
Running time: 67 minutes
Barbara Hammer’s first feature-length documentary emerges as both love letter and excavation. A pioneer of queer experimental cinema, Hammer threads together the sensual and the political, layering tender portraits of lesbian and gay couples with fragments of our forbidden archives. What unfolds is a haunting visual where desire, allegory, and history collide. Unearthed and reassembled, images long buried, among them scenes from Lot in Sodom (1933), one of the earliest gay films in the U.S., reassert queer presence insisting on a lineage that has always existed, even when hidden.
"I made Nitrate Kisses because lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people have been left out of an official history where we exist as a gloss to a heterosexual text. " Barbara Hammer
This film has been selected by Spectra, Queer Non-Fiction Films, a film club hosted at UCL East, dedicated to showcasing queer stories in documentary, non-fiction works, and artist moving image.
UCL East Community Cinema
This screening is part of the UCL East Community Cinema, a series of free screenings on Wednesday evenings with films specially selected by our students, academics and community partners. Check out the other films we're screening.