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Barbara Hammer

Credit: Susan Wildes

Barbara Hammer (born May 15, 1939) is an American filmmaker in the genre of experimental films.

Biography Hammer was born in Hollywood, California. She is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles with a Bachelor's degree in psychology. She also holds two Master's degrees from San Francisco State University, one in English literature and one in film. She also took postgraduate classes in the field of digital media.

Nationality: 

United States

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  • Undoing the Whole Thing

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    Undoing The Whole Thing, the kick-off event of The Futurism is Ours, is about breaking down and building back up again. Featuring short work by Barbara Hammer, Miatta Kawinzi, and Joey Carducci, the program reflects on the filmmakers’ experiences working within and against cinematic lineages through their exploration of selfhood, queerness, and alternative social realities. 

    Dates: 

    Saturday, September 14, 2019 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Maysles Institute - New York, United States

  • Evidentiary Bodies: Celebrating Barbara Hammer & Carolee Schneemann

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    Barbara Hammer and Carolee Schneemann at the 2018 EAI Benefit. Photograph by Conrad Ventur. Courtesy of Conrad Ventur and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

    LUX & Club des Femmes present
    Evidentiary Bodies: Celebrating Barbara Hammer & Carolee Schneemann

    Join LUX & Club des Femmes for a weekend of films, introductions, memories, a zine and an exhibition of ephemera and texts to celebrate the lives and work of feminist experimental artists Barbara Hammer and Carolee Schneemann.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, July 13, 2019 (All day) to Sunday, July 14, 2019 (All day)

    Venue: 

    LUX - London, United Kingdom

  • Depth of FIeld. Ar, Fogo, Terra, Água: Carte Blance to Ana Vaz

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    Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie, 1964)

    As an extension of her exhibition at Matadero's Nave 0, Cineteca hosts AR, FOGO, TERRA, ÁGUA, a carte blanche in which the Brazilian artist Ana Vaz (Brasilia, 1986) puts her own work in dialogue with a personal history of cinema in which claims a poetic-physics of impurity. From Bruce Baillie to Toshio Matsumoto, through the new Latin American cinemas and the North American avant-garde, Vaz invites us on an elementary journey - air, fire, earth, water - for a personal and political, artistic and ethnographic cinema.

    Dates: 

    Friday, July 12, 2019 (All day)
    Sunday, July 14, 2019 (All day)
    Wednesday, July 17, 2019 (All day)
    Sunday, July 28, 2019 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Cineteca Madrid - Madrid, Spain

  • Remembering Barbara Hammer

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    Barbara Hammer. Photo by Eric McNatt

    A Special Memorial Screening

    San Francisco Cinematheque and Canyon Cinema present a special memorial screening in honor of the recently departed pioneering lesbian feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939–2019).

    Dates: 

    Thursday, June 27, 2019 - 19:30

    Venue: 

    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, United States

  • Selected Experimental and Animated Works from the Women’s Film Preservation Fund

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    Since 1996 the Women’s Film Preservation Fund has preserved a number of significant experimental and animated works by American women, many of which reflect pioneering approaches and unique voices.  These include works by Storm de Hirsch, Barbara Hammer, Peggy Ahwesh, Bette Gordon, and Helen Hill among others. 

    Dates: 

    Friday, June 21, 2019 (All day) to Saturday, June 22, 2019 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Anthology Film Archives - New York, Estados Unidos

  • Women I Love

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    Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer, 1992)

    The first weekend of June Cinematek celebrates the combat of women, female artists and filmmakers, feminists and their commitment. A weekend focus on female pioneers who have brought new representations of women to the screen, made the camera a weapon for emancipation and have innovated film language: From Les Insoumuses, Carole Roussopoulos & Delphine Seyrig, to Barbara Hammer, and Carolee Schneemann. Four screenings that are remarkably intertwined.

    Dates: 

    Saturday, June 1, 2019 (All day) to Sunday, June 2, 2019 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Cinematek - Brussels, Belgium

  • Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant 2019

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    The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. The grant is supported directly by funds provided by her estate and administered through Queer|Art by lesbians for lesbians, with a rotating panel of judges. In her last few months with us, Barbara decided to increase the grant amount, as she understood so well that a bit of financial help could make a big difference in a project.

    Deadline: 

    Wednesday, July 17, 2019 (All day)

  • 21st VIDEOEX International Experimental Film & Video Festival

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    Videoex 2019

    Videoex, the largest Experimental Film & Video Festival in Switzerland, is celebrating its 21st edition this year. Over 9 days, Videoex will present more than 150 works on the threshold between visual art and film.

    Videoex – International Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich 
    25 May – 2 June 2019
    21st Edition

    International & Swiss Competition

    Guest programme Brazil: Hélio Oiticica, Glauber Rocha, Vivian Ostrovsky, Videobrasil, Tropicalismo

    Dates: 

    Saturday, May 25, 2019 (All day) to Sunday, June 2, 2019 (All day)

    Venue: 

    Videoex Filmfestival - Zürich, Switzerland

  • Barbara Hammer: Cinema of Intimacy

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    In tribute to film legend Barbara Hammer (1939–2019), this program highlights a selection of the artist’s early films rooted in the Bay Area. Shot at the Roxie Theater, the beginning of Audience (1982) features Hammer’s fun, flirtatious, and thoughtful interviews with the audience line before her tribute screening as part of that year’s San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. Recognized as one of the first lesbian experimental filmmakers, Hammer explicitly championed the perspective of women and the visibility of the lesbian and queer communities

    Dates: 

    Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 18:30

    Venue: 

    Little Roxie - San Francisco, United States

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