Nitrate kisses /
A collage of different elements - found footage, interviews, optical reprinting and filmed footage of lesbian and gay lovemaking - is used to relate a lesbian and gay history that has been repressed or distorted. The film's main strategy is densely associative, operating on different levels, al...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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©1992
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| Online Access: | Related Electronic Resource: Filmmaker's web page for this work, with brief clip: |
| Summary: | A collage of different elements - found footage, interviews, optical reprinting and filmed footage of lesbian and gay lovemaking - is used to relate a lesbian and gay history that has been repressed or distorted. The film's main strategy is densely associative, operating on different levels, allegorical, historical and erotic. |
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| Item Description: | DVD of a film made in 1992. "Nitrate Kisses explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. This first feature by Barbara Hammer, a practicing pioneer of lesbian cinema, weaves striking images of the sexual activities of four gay and lesbian couples with footage that unearths the forbidden and invisible history of a marginalized people. Archival footage from the first gay film in the U.S., Lot in Sodom (1933), and footage from German documentary and narrative films of the 1930s are interwoven with current images of desire."--Frameline web site. "'Nitrate kisses' questions how history is recorded and encourages the viewer, gay or straight, to save scraps, letters, books, records, and snapshots in order to preserve our 'ordinary' lives as history."--Container. "Approx. 67 mins."--Container. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 DVD (65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematographer, editor, Barbara Hammer. |