Background
Hammer received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to help finance Nitrate Kisses, which was her first feature film. She decided she wanted to make a film about the most marginalized groups within the queer community. When choosing which couples to film having sex, she decided to feature a mixed-race couple and asked two friends of hers, Jack Waters and Peter Cramer. She then met a young lesbian couple who were both women of color, and were pierced and tattooed, with shaved heads. She filmed them making love in a sculpture of a burnt out house, which Hammer felt represented "a history we don't have." Next, she met a lesbian couple who arrived to shoot their scene with S/M paraphernalia. When looking for her fourth couple, Hammer decided that she wanted to explore ageism in the lesbian community. She went to an awards ceremony for older lesbians and chose a woman called Frances Lorraine who performed in the film with a friend. In an interview for Alexandra Juhasz's book Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video, Hammer called Nitrate Kisses her best work.
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