Image from Optic Nerve - film by Barbara Hammer

OPTIC NERVE

16mm film, Color/Sound by Helen Thorington, 16min.

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The fragility of the 16mm film medium, the pollution of light, and the demise of the filmmaker are explored in Optic Nerve.

“Barbara Hammer’s Optical Nerves is a powerful personal reflection on family and aging. Hammer employs filmed footage which, through optical printing and editing, is layered and manipulated to create a compelling meditation on her visit to her grandmother in a nursing home. The sense of sight becomes a constantly evolving process of reseeing images retrieved from the past and fused into the eternal present of the projected image. Hammer has lent a new voice to the long tradition of personal meditation in the avant-garde of the American independent cinema.”
— John Hanhardt, Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987

DVD available for sale for private use.

OPTICAL NERVES (includes Parisian Blinds, Tourist, Optic Nerve, Place Mattes, Endangered)

Price: $30
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