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Evidentiary Bodies Installation on View at The Fralin Museum of Art
June 22, 2024 - January 26, 2025
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Evidentiary Bodies is Hammer's first and only multichannel video installation. The immersive work intertwines images from Hammer’s previous films with her own medical diagnostic imagery creating a powerful and moving representation of her life, work, and experience with cancer.
MUDAM Presents “Radical Software”
Opening September 19th, 7:00pm. On view through February 2, 2025.
MUDAM: The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991 surveys the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who worked with computers as a tool or subject and artists who worked in an inherently computational way.
Barbara Hammer at Champ Lacombe, London’s inaugural exhibition at 1 Woburn Walk
October 9, 2024 - January 9, 2025
1 Woburn Walk, WC1H OJJ
London
Champ Lacombe will be opening their London gallery with an exhibition of works by Barbara Hammer.MoMA Presents Vital Signs: Artists and the Body
Nov 3, 2024–Feb 22, 2025
MoMA
New York, NY
Vital Signs includes over 100 works by artists who question what it means to be an individual within a larger society—and how socially sustained categories such as gender, race, and sexual identity are rooted in abstraction.
The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020
November 9, 2024 - March 23, 2025
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
Employing a range of mediums beyond painting, such as video and performance, the featured artists subvert longstanding traditions and mythologies of painting—and the notion of the painter as singular genius—to offer a vital portrait of a medium that is still being reinvented.
Sync Touch Featured in MoMA Partnership with Moynihan Train Hall
December '24 - January '25
Moynihan Train Hall
New York City
Throughout the months of December and January, Sync Touch will fill the screens at Moynihan Train Hall in Penn Station.
Composers Concordance Presents MUSIC & FILM @ WESTBETH
Saturday, December 21st at 7pm
Westbeth
55 Bethune St, NYC
On Saturday, December 21st, 2024 at 7pm, Composers Concordance will present Music & Film @ Westbeth, an event combining cutting-edge short films with contemporary music composition.Past Events
ICA London presents The Female Closet & discussion with Nicole Eisenman and Andrew Durbin
Tuesday 17 December, 6:15pm
ICA London, Cinema 1
The Mall, London
The Female Closet (1998), combines rare footage, interviews, and rich visual documentation to survey the lives of three variously closeted and not-so-closeted artists from different segments of the 20th century: Victorian photographer Alice Austen, Weimar collagist Hannah Höch, and contemporary artist Nicole Eisenman.
L’association Solaris Videodrome 2 Project presents DOUBLE VISION
Thursday, December 19, 8:30 p.m.
Videodrome 2
49 Cours Julien, 13006 Marseille
DOUBLE VISION is a monthly program that takes radical, transformative and visionary works of cinema and pairs them with their mirror selves.
A BIENTOT J’ESPERE Presents PRENDRE LA VAGUE
December 14, 2024; 2pm - Midnight
Le Pacifique, 30 chemin des Alpins
Grenoble, France
One-day festival with film screenings, food, and cabaret; Tremors, alliances, and chosen families.
Girona experimental and avant-garde film festival presents “Jocs d’Aigua”
Dec 12, 2024, 6:00 PM
El Modern
Girona, Spain
The Birdie Num Num film association is organizing a screening of experimental 16mm films entitled "Jocs d'aigua", or "Water Games", screening films that use water as a motif.
NACHTWACHE – Experimental Film Night
Dec 7, 2024, 8:00 PM
Kino im Blauen Salon
Karlsruhe, Germany
Kino im Blauen Salon will kick off their new format, the Nachtwache, with a hefty dose of experimentation! Including a screening of Barbara Hammer's Place Mattes.
Brooklyn Academy of Music Screening Nitrate Kisses + No No Nooky TV
Nov 16th and 20th, 2024. 4:30pm
BAM
Brooklyn, NY
As part of their program, OUTRAGE: Movies and the Culture Wars, 1987–1996, Brooklyn Academy of Music will be screening Nitrate Kisses and No No Nooky TV on November 16th and 20th at 4:30pm.
October 23, 2024, 7pm
Museo Macro
Rome, Italy
The Rome Museum of Contemporary Art presents 16MM RUN, a presentation of three films on 16mm concerning the representation of women and sexuality.
AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s Art for Art’s Sake series continues with the theme Touch Me
October 8, 5:00pm
Cinema Orion
Eerikinkatu 15, Helsinki
The fall season of AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s “Art for Art’s Sake” screening, event and discussion series kicks off on October 8, 2024 with the theme “Touch me”, and including a screening of Barbara Hammer's "Dyketactics."
The Female Closet Featured in Cinematek’s Our Story Series
October 10, 9:00pm
Ledoux, Cinematek
Brussels
In October, Our Story will host two sessions of Photo/sensibles: A Queer History Through Images, including a screening of Barbara Hammer's film The Female Closet.
Final Weekend of Arxipèlag Cinema Series
Multiple events; Women I Love screening 9/27 8:00pm
Cadaqués, Spain
The Arxipèlag Film Series presents its second edition this year, which will take place during each and every weekend in September, including a screening of Barbara Hammer's Women I Love.
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Presents Cinema Urbana
Multiple Orgasm screening on Sept 26th, 5:00pm
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
Brasília, Brasil
Banco do Brasil is pleased to present Cinema Urbana – International Architectural Film Festival in its special edition Mulheridades , between September 13th and 26th, at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) Brasília.
Webber Gallery Presents “A Forest Fire between Us”
September 14 - November 30, 2024
Webber Gallery
Los Angeles
Webber 939 is delighted to present A forest fire between us, an exhibition of works by West Coast based photographer, lesbian sex activist, and educator Tee A. Corinne, and including a projection of Barbara Hammer's "Women I Love."
Beneath the Surface: The Swimming Pool in Cinema
5 September - 10 November
Batalha Centro de Cinema
Porto, Portugal
Presenting a selection of works from the 1930s to the present day and spanning various genres and aesthetics, Batalha Centro de Cinema's program shows how swimming pools are used in cinema, becoming vehicles for reflections on body, desire, death, community, class and ecologies. Sapphic Summer Dreams at Kino in der Reitschule Presents Nitrate Kisses
Wednesday, August 21st, 8:30pm
Kino in der Reitschule
Bern, Switzerland
It's time again for a few really warm summer nights in the courtyard of the riding school. After "Hot Boy Summer" 2022, this year it's "Sapphic Summer Dreams": filmmaking by women-loving directors before the turn of the millennium on the open air screen!
Women’s Short Film Programme at silent green
August 17th, 6pm
Kuppelhalle, silent green
Berlin
Berlin's silent green presents Now Wave: Beth B – Glowing, including a Women's Short Film Programme featuring Barbara Hammer's film, Menses.Hammer Me Queer at Northwest Film Forum
June 22, 2024
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
The Interbay Cinema Society is proud to present a special screening series showcasing the groundbreaking work of pioneering filmmaker Barbara Hammer. 16mm Subversion: Barbara Hammer and Coni Beeson
Friday, June 28th, 8:00pm
Glitterbox Theater
210 West 8th Avenue, Homestead, PA 15120
Pittsburgh Sound + Image brings to you an evening of West Coast experimental shorts by the legendary Barbara Hammer and her lesser known contemporary Coni Beeson.
June 20-23, 2024
Gorki
Berlin
2024's Queer Week at Gorki delves into the loss and mourning of queer bodies, highlighting critical art in times of war and state oppression, pointing out the pressure from families and society, as well as inner conflicts, and at the same time exploring the possibilities for solidarity within the queer community. FilmoTeca de Catalunya Presents AULA B
Wednesday 12 June 2024 · 17:00; Friday 21 June 2024 · 21:30
FilmoTeca de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
This edition of AULA B, a presentation by Pompeu Fabra University students, includes a screening of Barbara Hammer's Dyketactics and Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied.
Light Cone Presents: SCRATCH EXPANDED #11
June 15, 7:00pm
Les Voûtes
19 rue des Frigos, Paris, France
Light Cone presents the 11th edition of Scratch Expanded (Paris 13th), a biennial event dedicated to expanded cinema – a cinematic form that breaks free from traditional theatrical projection, bringing together various moving image practices such as multi-screen projection, performance, and installation.
GLÜCKLICHE TAGE (Happy Days) Exhibit includes Barbara Hammer’s “Sisters!”
May 16 - October 20, 2024
Museum unter Tage
Bochum, Germany
Based on Samuel Beckett's play of the same name from 1960, the exhibition GLÜCKLICHE TAGE (Happy Days) in the Museum unter Tage, Bochum, asks about forms of happiness under difficult conditions. A total of 12 artists present around 15 works of film, photography, painting and sculptural positions as well as installations.Family Portrait at Eaton Workshop
May 31 - July 1, 2024
Eaton Workshop
Hong Kong
The "Family Portrait" exhibition seeks to illuminate the experiences and challenges faced by queer and disabled families in Hong Kong, the United States, and France, within the context of their biological families.
Bent Time Screening at DocumentaMadrid
May 31, 1:00PM
Cineteca
Madrid, Spain
Bruno Delgado Ramo presents "You are the season, the day, the minute," a screening of films for DocumentaMadrid.
13th Oodaaq Festival Presents AMOUR AMOUR LIBERTÉ
May 19th, 2:15pm
La Parcheminerie
Paris, France
On May 19th, Tahin Demeral brings her workshop-conference centering around the works of Barbara Hammer to the 2024 Oodaaq Festival, followed by a screening of Nitrate Kisses.
May 10th, 6:30pm
Platform Arts
Wadawurrung Country, 60 Little Malop St, Geelong VIC 3220, Australia
Platform Arts is thrilled to host Narrm/Melbourne-based collective Artist Film Workshop for a special co-presentation of Barbara Hammer's Nitrate Kisses (1992).
Millennium Docs Against Gravity presents “A radical message requires a radical form.”
May 10th, 8:30pm
Kinoteka, sala 3
Warszawa, Poland
This retrospective of the queer and feminist cinema pioneer, icon, and activist Barbara Hammer covers her work ranging from the early 1970s through her work in the 21st century.
Open City Documentary Festival Presents Grandma’s Grammar
April 25, 8:45pm
Institute of Contemporary Arts
London
The 2024 Open City Documentary Festival presents "Grandma's Grammar," curated by Elena Gorfinkel, drawing together works by Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Tânia Dinis, Katsuhiko Fukuda, Barbara Hammer, Utako Koguchi, Cecilia Mangini, Gunvor Nelson, Margaret Rorison, Chiemi Shimada, Emilija Škarnulytė, Khady & Mariama Sylla, Ana Elena Tejera and Naomi Uman.
QUEER CALIFORNIA: A history of California’s LGBTQIA+ communities in the 20th century
April 23-29, 2024
Le 109 - Pôle de cultures contemporaines à la ville de Nice
Nice, France
The Ouvreurs are offering a major exhibition in the hall of 109 - Pôle de cultures contemporains in the City of Nice, accompanied by numerous other events - screenings, conferences, workshops, DJ sets - to highlight the rich political, activist, intellectual and artistic of Californian LGBTQI+ communities in the 20th century.
19th Cinémarges Festival Presents AMOUR AMOUR LIBERTÉ
April 2 & 7, 2024
La Lucarne & CAPC
Bordeaux, France
In collaboration with Monoquini and the CAPC, the 19th Cinémarges Festival is offering an introductory workshop-conference to the work of Barbara Hammer, including 3 of her most notable films.
62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival Screening “A Horse is Not a Metaphor”
March 29th, 7pm
State Theater
Ann Arbor, MI
The Ann Arbor Film Festival presents the film portion of this program in homage to and celebration of Barbara Hammer, whose named award, the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award, was established by filmmaker Lynne Sachs. The annual award became fully endowed in the summer of 2023, ensuring that every year the AAFF can recognize the work that best conveys Hammer’s passion for celebrating and examining the experiences of women.