Please note: This was screened in
“I was born when I became a lesbian.”
Highlighted as an LGBTQ+ “must see” for the 2026 festival season, Brydie O’Connor’s archive-driven documentary focuses on experimental and pioneering lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer. O’Connor’s directorial debut uses archival footage and Hammer’s own voice to guide the audience through her life, loves, ambition and identity.
Hammer began her film career in the 1970s with Dyketactics (1974) after observing a distinct lack of lesbian representation on-screen. Challenging the pornification of same-sex desire, Hammer framed the uncompromising intimacy of her film’s subjects in slow, sensual and evocative beats.. Today, Hammer’s prolific body of work has become a fierce and politically-charged cornerstone of queer cinema, encompassing themes of lesbian identity, government, politics, society at large.
After the screening there will be a Bristol Butch Bar gathering in the bar - join for the chance to discuss the screening, have a drink, or just socialise!
