Filmmaker Barbara Hammer speaks to writer-filmmaker Silas Howard about her pioneering work as a queer, feminist filmmaker. Barbara Hammer is known for creating groundbreaking experimental films dealing with issues such as gender roles, lesbian relationships, and coping with aging and family. Hammer is responsible for some of the first lesbian-made films in history, including Dyketactics (1974) and Women I Love (1976). In the last decade of her life, Hammer was the subject of retrospective exhibitions in several major museums and in 2017 her paper archive was acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. Silas Howard co-directed his first feature film, By Hook or by Crook, with Harry Dodge. He began directing episodes during the second season of Transparent, making him the show's first trans director.