A series of afternoon underground queer cinema at The Horse Hospital. Nitrate Kisses (1992) is the first feature documentary by Barbara Hammer, a pioneer of lesbian cinema. It weaves striking images of four gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed forbidden and invisible history. Archival footage from the first gay film in the U.S., Lot In Sodom (1933) is interwoven in this haunting documentary. This will be screened proceeded the film, with a live score.
Doors 1pm, Screening 1:30pm
Tickets £8-10, NOTAFLOF
Series Pass: £15 (three weeks)
Barbara Hammer’s first feature-length film, Nitrate Kisses (1992) is a landmark of LGBT+ cinema. After a lifetime of teaching and making lesbian films, Hammer realised that so much of LGBT+ life was missing from both mainstream and underground filmmaking. She set out to change that with Nitrate Kisses, by weaving striking images of four gay and lesbian couples with footage of an unearthed and forbidden history, including archival footage from Lot in Sodom.
Lot in Sodom (1933), directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber is a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanals devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to sins of the flesh. This silent film will be accompanied by a live score.