Double Strength (1978) dir. Barbara Hammer
A poetic study of the stages of a lesbian relationship by two women performance artists from honeymoon, through struggle, to breakup, to enduring friendship. Starring Terry Sendgraff on trapeze. Barbara Hammer The poetry of Barbaras images carries us through the duration of a relationship: its intensely erotic beginnings, its sense of serenity, its playfulness and comedy and its closure the alienation, pain, anger and loss of contact. The death of the body, a theme tenderly interwoven into the ageless strength and agility of Terry Sendgraffs body, becomes the death of a relationship, a closing out, a leaving of the body behind. The body becomes a source of life. Its movement, grace, pain and happiness are contrasted with the inertness of things and the stillness of photos that merely document the brief passage of light. Jacquelyn Zita, Jump Cut
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