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  • Welcome to this House (2015)
  • 79 min | Documentary, Biography, History
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Welcome to this House (2015)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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 ...See moreWelcome 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. See less
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May 26, 2015 (United States)
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Elizabeth Bishop
Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage)   See fewer
Kathleen Chalfant
Elizabeth Bishop (voice) Elizabeth Bishop (voice)   See fewer
Barbara Hammer
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Erin Miller
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