{"id":572367,"date":"2026-07-28T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/572367\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:42:11","slug":"barbara-hammer-documentary-barbara-forever-debuts-trailer-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/572367\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Hammer Documentary ‘Barbara Forever’ Debuts Trailer \u2014 Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most searingly memorable and immersive portraits of an artist in recent years, Brydie O\u2019Connor\u2019s \u201cBarbara Forever<\/a>\u201d is a kaleidoscopic look at the life, loves, and work of lesbian avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Hammer is best known for putting women\u2019s issues (and women\u2019s bodies) front and center in her taboo-busting 16mm experimental films \u2014 which doubled as visual essays about her experience coming out later in life, in 1974, and out of a heterosexual marriage. IndieWire<\/a> called it \u201ca sincere ode to the queer iconoclast. For gay cinephiles, it\u2019s a historic gold mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBarbara Hammer\u201d won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award out of the 2026 Sundance U.S. Documentary competition, and it\u2019s easy to see why, as this exquisitely assembled, poetic swirl of a movie culls not only from Hammer\u2019s output \u2014 but also the outtakes, narrative B-sides, and stolen moments that never before aired in any museum retrospective or theatrical screening of her work. Ahead of the film<\/a>\u2018s September release, IndieWire exclusively debuts the trailer for \u201cBarbara Forever\u201d below \u2014 and it starts with a laugh-out-loud funny scene in the film in which Hammer tries to explain (and show) experimental film to a classroom of youngsters.<\/p>\n

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Per the synopsis, the film is \u201can expansive, immersive exploration of the life, work, and ongoing cultural impact of filmmaker Barbara Hammer \u2014 a pioneering artist who lived boldly, created urgently, and transformed cinema through her singular vision. Her films were an extension of herself: sensual, experimental, and unapologetically lesbian, rooted in a profound desire for connection and an insistence on telling her own story. Driven by her canon of over 80 films, a vast collection of unreleased archival materials, and extensive audio interviews, Brydie O\u2019Connor\u2019s portrait allows for Hammer\u2019s voice and images to shine through, becoming both a tribute and an extension of her legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Sundance, \u201cBarbara Forever\u201d played the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary. It\u2019s produced by Space Time Films with Killer Films and Christine Vachon as executive producer. (Vachon and her producing partner Pamela Koffler broke ground this year as recipients of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award<\/a> at the Academy\u2019s upcoming Governors Awards, a lifetime achievement Oscar that\u2019s well-overdue.) O\u2019Connor, Elijah Stevens of Space Time Films, and Claire Edelman of Killer Films produce \u201cBarbara Forever.\u201d The film also counts Kristen Stewart, Dylan Meyer, and Maggie McClean as executive producers through their company Nevermind Pictures. <\/p>\n

\u201cTheir involvement reflects a dedication to Barbara Hammer\u2019s radical legacy of experimental and inherently political filmmaking that defiantly reshapes the way we look at cinema, queerness, and ourselves,\u201d per Strand Releasing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe energy of the trailer mirrors the exuberance of the film \u2014 we are so excited for audiences to see this beautiful, immersive movie in the theater,\u201d said Strand\u2019s Marcus Hu.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarbara Forever\u201d opens in New York at Film Forum on September 4 before rolling out in cities across North America, including Los Angeles on September 11, and San Francisco on September 18. Read IndieWire\u2019s review of the film here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most searingly memorable and immersive portraits of an artist in recent years, Brydie O\u2019Connor\u2019s \u201cBarbara…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[241510,93,1043,61,60,270,12541],"class_list":["post-572367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-barbara-forever","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}