“My life has been lived in film.” In her debut film, Brydie O’Connor explores how Barbara Hammer has achieved immortality as a queer icon through art. O’Connor’s film itself functions as an archive that organizes the artist’s life story and career into a linear narrative, providing chronological orientation and analysis. Hammer’s voice serves as a compass through contemporary history, linking the private with the political, and the personal with social struggles. In her portrait, O’Connor highlights just how essential queer and lesbian perspectives have been to the evolution of cinema itself.