(Welcome to This House)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Canada,

United States of America,

Brazil

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

79 minutes

Year:

2015

Directors:

Barbara Hammer

Actors:

Elizabeth Bishop

Crews:

Director