Join us for a special evening celebrating the films and life of legendary film/artist Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) who left us too soon last year.

Admission by donation — all funds received will be donated to the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant Fund! https://www.queer-art.org/hammer-grant

A selection of Barbara’s films from the CFMDC collection paired with a recent short by Deborah Stratman ! ((more details posted soon))

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Schizy – 1967 – 3 minutes – Super 8mm – silent
Dyketactics – 1974 – 4 minutes – 16mm
Menses – 1974 – 4 minutes – 16mm
X – 1973 – 8 minutes – 16mm
Optic Nerve – 1985 – 16 minutes – 16mm
Bent Time – 1984 – 22 minutes -16mm – original score by Pauline Oliveros

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Vever (for Barbara) – Deborah Stratman – 2019 – 12 minutes – Guatemala/USA – 16mm (*format to be confirmed)

A cross-generational binding of three filmmakers seeking alternative possibilities to the power structures they are inherently part of. Each woman extends her reach to a subject she is outside of. “Vever” grew out of the abandoned film projects of Maya Deren and Barbara Hammer. Shot at the furthest point of a motorcycle trip Hammer took to Guatemala in 1975, and laced through with Deren’s reflections of failure, encounter and initiation in 1950s Haiti.

TRT: 69 minutes

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PRESENTED BY:
re:assemblage collective
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC)
Co-presenter: Pleasure Dome

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SPECIAL THANKS:
Florrie Burke
Toronto Media Arts Centre
Video Data Bank
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TMAC = Toronto Media Arts Centre
::Location::
32 Lisgar Street, south of Queen Street West, 2nd floor
*Wheelchair accessible | gender neutral washrooms | all are welcome regardless of ability to pay | unrated/unclassified
www.tomediaarts.org