BARBARA FOREVER documentary screening at the Midtown Cinema: Lynne Sachs and Mark Street Introducing

Name: BARBARA FOREVER documentary screening at the Midtown Cinema: Lynne Sachs and Mark Street Introducing
Start: 2026-05-31T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Midtown Cinema

Schedule

Sun, 31 May, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Midtown Cinema | Harrisburg, PA

For the final day of the 27th Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival, we are honored and thrilled to screen "BARBARA FOREVER"!!! An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
Turning the lens on a celebrated filmmaker is no easy task, particularly one whose work is as groundbreaking, sensual, and life-affirming as Barbara Hammer’s. Yet, director Brydie O’Connor does her justice. Weaving a kinetic tapestry of archival footage guided by Hammer’s own voice, the film offers an intimate front-row seat into the mind of a visual poet.
Barbara Hammer was deeply concerned with who makes history and who is left out, which motivated her to record her life, her body, her lovers, and the joy found in her lesbian identity. O’Connor’s portrait is an inspiring tribute and candid document of artistic process, capturing the persistence, unabashed ambition, and inevitable tensions such drive creates. Barbara Hammer’s work opened the door for so many artists, and her legacy, so deftly captured here, reminds us why. — SO
This film contains strobe effects.
This film contains mature content and may not be appropriate for all ages.
"BARBARA FOREVER" directed by Brydie O’Connor
plus a special additional film:
"So Many Ideas Impossible To Do All." 2019. USA. Directed by Mark Street. 11 min.
“A year before her death, Barbara Hammer asked me to work on a project she’d envisioned based on her correspondence (1973-85) with Jane Brakhage. She also gave me outtakes from her 1974 film, Jane Brakhage, and told me to let the project take me wherever it led. What emerges is a portrait of Barbara as a brave and vibrant artist and a complex and nuanced long distance friendship.” – Mark Street
https://barbarahammer.com/films/so-many-ideas-impossible-to-do-all-by-mark-street/
-Co-presented by the LGBT Center: The LGBT Center of Central PA fosters inclusive communities and holistic well-being for LGBTQ+ people through social, educational, and cultural engagement. Established in 2006 and based in Harrisburg, the LGBT Center serves over 4,000 people each year across Dauphin, Cumberland, York, and Lancaster counties. Please consider donating to support its important work by visiting centralpalgbtcenter.org!
$12, Midtown Cinema, Harrisburg
Sunday May 31st, 3PM