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Barbara Forever

Director

Brydie O'Connor

Executive Producer

Christine Vachon

Consulting Producers

Zackary Drucker, Jenni Olson

Producers

Elijah Stevens, Brydie O’Connor, Claire Edelman

Editor

Matt Hixon

Music

Taul Katz

An intimate, dreamlike, and masterfully crafted portrait of the life, work, and legacy of pioneering feminist experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose work helped define early lesbian cinema. Tracing her prolific canon alongside never-before-seen documentation of her life and body, the film reveals Hammer’s unconventional attempts to live on—most notably through the extensive archiving of her films. Directed by Brydie O’Connor, this feature expands on the award-winning 2022 short LOVE, BARBARA.

Content Warning: This film contains depictions of nudity. Viewer discretion is advised.

Post-Screening Discussion with producer Elijah Stevens, protagonist and long-time partner of Barbara Hammer, Florrie Burke and filmmaker, curator and collaborator Joey Carducci. Moderated by Joanna Raczynska, Film Programmer and Curator at the National Gallery of Art (NGA).

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Brydie O’Connor

Director, Barbara Forever

Brydie O’Connor (she/her) is a Kansas-born, New York–based filmmaker whose work activates archives through queering storytelling structures within nonfiction. Her films include THE ROAMING CENTER FOR MAGNETIC ALTERNATIVES (2025), THE FAULT LINE (2025), and LOVE, BARBARA (2022), which was nominated for an IDA Award.

Her work has been supported by Frameline, Hot Docs, Cinéma du Réel, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Stonewall Foundation, and has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, BFI, and DOC NYC, among other festivals and galleries worldwide. She is the recipient of the Creative Capital State of the Art Prize for New York (2026) and the Hulu/Kartemquin Accelerator Award (2023).

O’Connor is a graduate of The George Washington University and has developed her work at the Provincetown Film Society LGBTQ+ Filmmakers Residency (2024) and the On:View Residency (2024) in Savannah, Georgia.

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