Today from 17:00-20.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their weekly screening in the Uninersity Theatre! This week's film is a selection of Barbara Hammer’s short films and the feature film Nitrate Kisses.

The Queer Ephemera of Barbara Hammer, with introductions by Parker Burrows (short films, 1968-1976) and Mel Ketelaars (Nitrate Kisses, 1992)

Known as a trailblazer of experimental queer cinema, Barbara Hammer’s films focus on representing both the ephemera and the undeniable concreteness of what it means to be queer. Her early films, such as Dyketactics (where a party of lesbians frolic naked in a park) and Superdyke (where a lesbian army takes over the streets of San Francisco) use the confines of the film frame to create small but impenetrable safe spaces where queer sexuality can blossom in spite of a hostile, heteronormative culture. In other shorts, Contribution to Light and Multiple Orgasm, Hammer uses crossfades and dreamy cinematography to mix images of nature with images of bodies, always showing the inarguable place of queerness within the order of the natural world. These early shorts along with her masterpiece Women I Love, build up to her first feature film Nitrate Kisses, an essayistic documentary that explores the erasure of queer images in mainstream culture and unapologetically represents queerness as an ever-evolving, inextinguishable source of power.

The program will be:
- Contribution to Light (1968)
- ⁠⁠Dyketactics (1974)
-⁠ ⁠⁠Superdyke (1975)
- ⁠⁠Multiple Orgasm (1976)
-⁠ ⁠⁠Women I Love (1976)
- Nitrate Kisses (1992)