BRYDIE O’CONNOR
LOVE, BARBARA
HEARD CITY Post Production (sound editing and mixing) Grant
About the project: LOVE, BARBARA is a personal exploration of the love that inspired the trailblazing work of late lesbian experimental filmmaker & artist, Barbara Hammer, as told by her partner of over thirty years, Florrie Burke.
In her collection of over 100 films, Barbara Hammer centered her own body, community, and love to create performative documentations of her lived experience as a lesbian. Her greatest love of all, though, was left largely visually unexplored in her public work. In LOVE, BARBARA, Florrie Burke will discover Barbara’s personal work about their relationship, much of it unseen. Through blending cinematic imagery and archival materials such as video letters, sketches, and writing, we illuminate this piece of Barbara Hammer’s legacy.
About the filmmaker: Brydie O’Connor is a Kansas-bred, New York based filmmaker. Her award-winning directorial and producing work spans the documentary and narrative fields with a specific focus on women, queer, trans and non-binary stories. Recently, Brydie was selected for The Future of Film is Female Fall 2021 Grant and she was a NYSCA grant recipient with a sponsorship from Women Make Movies. Brydie workshopped her forthcoming film in the Female Filmmakers Berlin Directing Lab, which will premiere in 2022. Much of her work is inspired by archival histories.