[9] Hammer received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to help finance Nitrate Kisses, which was her first feature film.

She filmed them making love in a sculpture of a burnt-out house, which Hammer felt represented "a history we don't have.

She went to an awards ceremony for older lesbians and chose a woman called Frances Lorraine who performed in the film with a friend.

[12] In an interview for Alexandra Juhasz's book Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video, Hammer called Nitrate Kisses her best work.

[13] It was shown theatrically in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Austin, distributed by Strand Releasing.