Barbara Forever

Barbara Forever Poster

Ohio Premiere

Showings

Festival tickets go on sale March 18, with visionaries and members receiving early access for ticket purchase.

April 10, 2026
9:30 am – 11:12 am
Playhouse Square Campus
CSU Screening Room at the Idea Center (Floor 6)
April 11, 2026
12:00 pm – 1:42 pm
Cedar Lee Theatre

About This Film

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Festival Year: 2026
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Run Time: 102 Minutes
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Film Type: Feature
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Animated: No
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Genre: Documentary
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Countr(ies): USA
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Language: English
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English Subtitles: No
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Captions: Closed

Film Overview

BARBARA FOREVER explores the films, archive, and ongoing cultural impact of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to create and record lesbian histories, personal and societal. Through her own images and words, the film centers Hammer as a prism of the cultural ecosystems around her—through the feminist and queer movements in 1970s San Francisco, the male-dominated New York art world of the 1980s, the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s, and expanded LGBTQIA+ representation in art and culture in the 2000s.

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Programmer's Comment:

"Celebrate the life and work of this fascinating, provocative, queer, avant-garde filmmaker." – Mikey

Film Contact: Susan Norget Film Promotion
Film Email: susan@norget.com

Cast & Crew

Directed By

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Brydie O'Connor

Produced By

Elijah Stevens, Brydie O’Connor, Claire Edelman

Editors

Matt Hixon

Sponsors & Community Partners

Windsong, Cleveland’s Feminist Chorus
Community Partner
Plexus LGBT & Allied Chamber of Commerce
Community Partner