Looking back to the heyday of the New Queer Cinema movement that ruled the ’90s (the term itself was coined by film critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich at the 1992 edition of the Sundance Film Festival), one wonders what happened to the promising, radical, independent filmmaking that defined the era. Part of the answer lies in a brief but crucial moment in Brydie O’Connor’s documentary Barbara Forever, detailing the life and work of iconoclastic lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer: following...

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