NEWS
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.
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.