Welcome to this House

Name: Welcome to this House
Genre: Biography, History, Documentary
Released: May 26, 2015
Duration: 79 min

2015

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| Release Date: May 26, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: 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. InterviewsWelcome 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.… Expand

Director: Barbara Hammer

Genre(s): Biography, History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 79 min

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Clayton Dillard

May 22, 2015

If the documentary isn't quite dynamic in its revelations, it's considerably more so in its challengingly essayistic presentation. Read full review

Andy Webster

May 26, 2015

Ms. Hammer’s gauzier sequences notwithstanding, the film’s most commanding image is the housekeeper’s description of the ruthless monasticism Bishop maintained and the compulsive writing she practiced in her studio. Amid excesses and entanglements, that concentration ensured her place in literary history. Read full review

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