Welcome to this House
- Director: Barbara Hammer
- Writer: Barbara Hammer
- Producer: Barbara Hammer
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Welcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of art making without full lesbian disclosure. Hammer filmed in Bishop's best loved homes in the U.S., Canada, and Brazil, believing that buildings and landscapes bear cultural memories. Interviews with poets, friends, and scholars provide missing documents of numerous female lovers. Bishop*s intimate poems and the creative music composition by Joan La Barbara bring the poet into our lives with new facts and unexpected details.
Trailer...
Welcome To This House from barbara hammer on Vimeo.
Cast & Characters
Kathleen Chalfant as Elizabeth Bishop;
Barbara Hammer as Older Elizabeth Bishop;
Erin Miller as Young Elizabeth Bishop