Barbara Hammer Gets Her Due
A Hyperallergic roundup highlights renewed attention to the late queer filmmaker Barbara Hammer through the film Barbara Forever, described as both a biography and a self-conversation. The newsletter also spotlights coverage of the 15th edition of the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, including founder Maori Karmael Holmes reflecting on the festival’s growth and programming focused on experimental storytelling. Additional featured items include the documentary American Doctor, which follows three humanitarian physicians confronting the effects of the US-funded war in Gaza, and a documentary about activist-photographer Misan Harriman that raises questions about the aesthetics and politics of protest imagery. The roundup also notes the release of I Want Your Sex, a fictional film in which Olivia Wilde plays a power-hungry artist.
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