"NITRATE KISSES brings past and present into dialogue, mixing the sound of testimonials with the image of sex acts, refusing to allow its audience the escape of either amnesia or invisibility." B. Ruby Rich, POP CULTURE CRITIC

"HAMMER'S INTENSE productivity places her on the scale of Brakage or Warhol as a major force in independent film." Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye: a Revisionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema

"PASSIONATE, SUBJECTIVE meditation on the repressed and marginalized history of gay women and men." Vincent Canby, THE NEW YORK TIMES full text>>

"...ONE OF the most stunning, rich, and philosophically grounded explorations of lesbian and gay history that has ever been made." Linda Lopez McAlister, THE WOMEN'S SHOW, WMNF-FM full text>>

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