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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.Past Events
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.
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.
Cinéma du Réel Festival Presents CARTE BLANCHE TO DEBORAH STRATMAN
March 28th, 9:00pm
Le Centre Pompidou - Petite Salle
Paris
The Cinéma du Réel 46th International Documentary Film Festival presents a screening of four short films by and inspired by Barbara Hammer and Maya Deren.
March 7-17, 2024
Thessaloniki, Greece
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival presents the "Citizen Queer" program of films, including Barbara Hammer's Nitrate Kisses. The Festival showcases more than 25 films that reflect life in all its aspects, from the adventure of love and the challenges of everyday life all the way to the pivotal issues of identity, the courageous assertion of rights, the promising transformations that have already taken place, the necessary changes bound to take place in the future.
25th Dresden Schmalfilmtage Festival presents COME CLOSER
Thursday 14 March, 19:45
Motorenhalle
Wachsbleichstrasse 4a, 01067 Dresden
The aim is to broaden the scope through emotional intelligence, to bring in some glitter and naive brutalism. We want to get more personal. First-hand, noisy experiments of our own from notable examples of queer cinema in 16mm such as the graphic journey NO NO NOOKY T.V. by Barbara Hammer.
Interlocking Dimensions: Eco-Art at the Deering Contemporary
Saturday, March 2, 3:00-4:30pm
Deering Estate
Miami, FL
As part of Interlocking Dimensions: Eco-Art at the Deering Contemporary, 16mm Experimental Films on Eco Art is a free presentation of rare Avant-garde and experimental works from cinema history presented in their original 16mm film formats.CINEINFINITO Screening Barbara Hammer Films
March 15th
CINEINFINITO
Santander, Spain
On March 15th, CINEINFINITO will be screening Dyketactics, Nitrate Kisses, and Resisting Paradise.
RPM Fest Presents Stan Brakhage and Barbara Hammer
February 11th, 2:00pm
The Brattle
Cambridge, MA
RPM and the Brattle Theatre are thrilled to announce a presentation featuring a collection of six films by avant-garde filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Barbara Hammer.
‘Something Different Down Here’ Living in the Alienverse
February 17th, 7pm
Cinematek
Baron Horta 9, Bruxelles, Belgium
CINEMATEK and the Royal Film Archive of Belgium present 'Something Different Down Here: Living in the Alienverse' featuring two films by Sadie Benning and two films by Barbara Hammer.
FilmmakHER: Twenty-four female directors you may not have heard of yet
Dec 1, 2023 - Jan 21st, 2024
Museo del Territorio
Alberobello
From Friday 1 December 2023 to Wednesday 31 January 2024, the exhibition “FilmmakHER. Twenty-four female directors you may not have heard of yet” in collaboration with the 24FPS Association and Cubo – Contenitore Creativo and the Spine Cultural Association.
Barbara Hammer: Lesbian gaze, Collective history
January 20-21, 2024
The Cable Car
Veyrier-du-Lac, France
Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain presents screenings, discussions and concert at the Cable Car.
Filmoteca Española and ICAA Present: Women I Love
January 9th - February 15th, 2024
Cine Doré
Madrid, Spain
Throughout the months of January and February 2024, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) will be showing 27 films by Barbara Hammer.
Seething Under the Snow presented by EAI
December 15, 2023 – January 30, 2024
Online
The Carolee Schneemann Foundation and EAI are pleased to offer three programs of film and video available for free screening online including works by Carolee Schneemann, Ellen Cantor, Cheryl Donegan, Barbara Hammer, Ken Jacobs, Joan Jonas, Andrew Lampert, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, and Hannah Wilke.
WOMEN I LOVE at Remake Film Festival
December 7th, 10:30AM
Pupille – Kino in der Uni
Frankfurt
Barbara Hammer (1939-2019), one of queer and feminist cinema’s most important women filmmmakers, was among the first to dedicate herself to making lesbian lives visible. This short film programme is organised from the perspective of the festival’s focus, "In the Company of Others: Feminist Perpectives on Closeness, Responsibility and Solidarity in Film".
NITRATE KISSES Screening at Kriterion
Dec 11th & 16th, 2023
Filmtheater Kriterion
Amsterdam
Kriterion's December Modern Classic programme is called: Avant-garde: Buzzword or movement? For their third screening they are showing the documentary/indie Nitrate Kisses (on 16MM)!
La Gran Fabula del Capital / The Great Fable of Capital
Dec 1, 2023 - Apr 14, 2024
Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque
Madrid
La Gran Fabula del Capital brings together seven artists and groups (Joseph Beuys, Barbara Hammer, Alexander Kluge, Esther García Llovet, Max de Esteban, Marco A. Castillo, Leeds Animation Workshop) whose works refute capitalist realism - according to the term coined by Mark Fisher - from their own allegorical sources, rejecting its aspiration to be THE ONLY VOICE in describing, naming and typifying the world.
Memories of Sexualities in Cinema
Tuesday, Dec 5th, 2023 6:30-7:15pm
Videodrome 2
49 Cours Julien, 13006 Marseille
Mémoire des Sexualités joins forces with Videodrome 2 for a week of cinema, to bring our queer archives to life.
Documentaire sur grand écran presents Relectures queers
Tuesday, Dec 5th, 2023 6:30pm
Forum des Images
Paris
Barbara Hammer and Paul B. Preciado speak with works from the past to highlight and give voice to the present flourishing of queer subjectivities, an accomplishment made possible by transhistorical collective struggles.
Screening of Four Barbara Hammer Films at Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain
November 18, 2023
Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain
12 bis Cable Car Route d’Annecy, 74290 Veyrier-du-Lac, France
On November 18, 2023, Cinémathèque des Pays de Savoie et de l’Ain will be screening four films by Barbara Hammer: Dyketactics, Place Mattes, Nitrate Kisses, and Multiple Orgasm
November 24, 7:00-8:30pm
Tate Modern, Starr Cinema
Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Science, Body, Anatomy explores the intersection of film and medical technology. Curated with Sonia Epstein, from the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, this two-day series opens with a selection of shorts.
THE SPEED OF TIME: Film/Video Art in the US, 1965–1980
October 14 - December 10, 2023
The Mitchell Art Museum, St. John's College
Annapolis, MD
The Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum at St. John’s College presents “The Speed of Time: Film/Video in the U.S., 1965–80". The exhibition features pioneering work by seven artists who experimented with the elastic, symbolic, emotional, and social aspects of time, while probing film/video art’s changing expectations of the viewer.
I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem
Oct 14 - Nov 25, 2023
Mendes Wood DM
25 Place des Vosges 75004 Paris France
The reunion of the artworks in space is an invitation to think about tactile hands and their imprints as a pathway for a broader consideration of how subjects emerge as a constellation between inhuman time, nonhuman forces, and geologic materiality – a queer genealogy rather than an exceptional model of human subjectivity.
Dyketactics Screening at FémiGouin’Fest
October 7, 7:15pm
Cinema Star
Strasbourg, France
FémiGouin'Fest is a Lesbian, feminist and queer film festival in Strasbourg presented by La Nouvelle Lune on October 4-10, 2023.
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology
Thu 5 Oct 2023 - Sun 14 Jan 2024
Barbican Centre Art Gallery
Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
A major group exhibition exploring the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.
Lover/Other Screening at Festival Prendre Place
September 29 - October 1, 2023
Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center
Mellionnec, France
Included in the festival program is a screening of Lover/Other in the presence of Tahin Demiral, director and artist speaker specializing in the queer gaze and the cinema of Barbara Hammer.
The History of the World According to a Lesbian at La Voir Au Public
September 28 and November 2
4 Imp. Flesselles, 69001
Lyon, France
Moved by the work of Barbara Hammer, a pioneer of American lesbian cinema of the 70s, Laurine Labourier offers an immersive retrospective around her universe, a true movement for the transmission of collective and militant lesbian stories.
Virtual Exhibit: LGBTQ+ History in Mill Valley
Ongoing
Virtual
The Mill Valley Library in Marin County, California has launched their virtual exhibit, Chains of Fires, documenting the town's LGBTQ+ history. The exhibit features photographs, poems, writing and primary source documents from LGBTQ+ pioneers, past and present, including a photograph from Barbara Hammer's collection.
ALBA Gallery Presents: Female Recollection
8 Sep – 25 Nov 2023
ALBA Gallery
Schleifmühlgasse 3, A-1040 Vienna
The artists in this exhibition explore existential questions about embodied knowledge, questions posed by the interaction between our body and the world. The stories and fragments of personal histories assembled by the artists reveal how histories, narratives, classifications, and categorisations work to contain us, to simplify us, to limit, control, and reduce us. But they also remind us how our bodies cannot help but resist this premature closure. They reassure us that we are sites of constant metamorphosis and in being such, that we can be the means to create many different worlds.
Archivio Aperto Presents: Experimental Stories / Barbara Hammer
October 26, 2023
Via Sant’Isaia 18, 40123
Bologna, Italy
Archivio Aperto presents a screening of 12 Barbara Hammer films including Pond and Waterfall, Sanctus, History Lessons, and more.