NEWS
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.
SF Cinematheque Presents: Avante-Garde Masters Grants
September 18, 7:30 PM
4 Star Theater
2200 Clement StreetSan Francisco, CA
Founded in 1990 by Martin Scorsese, The Film Foundation is dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history by supporting the preservation work of film archives. In 2003, the Foundation partnered with the San Francisco-based National Film Preservation Foundation to create the Avant Garde Masters grant program, which has preserved 214 works of avant-garde cinema by 83 artists. San Francisco Cinematheque celebrates this legacy with an eclectic mix of works preserved under this program.
Pond and Waterfall Screening as Part of Mire’s DRIVE INN
September 2, 2023; 7:30pm
MIRE Experimental cinéma & moving image
Les ateliers du Château d'eau, 7 Chemin du Relais 44600 Saint-Nazaire
MIRE Experimental cinéma & moving image presents DRIVE INN, an open-air screening to celebrate the soft breeze of a late summer night.
Whitney Museum of American Art Presents “Trust Me”
August 19, 2023 - February 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
Trust Me imagines the reparative possibility of shared emotional experience, bringing together works by eleven intergenerational artists from the Whitney’s permanent collection: Laura Aguilar, Genesis Báez, Alvin Baltrop, Jenny Calivas, Moyra Davey, Lola Flash, Barbara Hammer, Muriel Hasbun, Dakota Mace, Mary Manning, and D’Angelo Lovell Williams.
Lorena Barrera Enciso Wins Sixth Annual Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant
Barrera Enciso was selected among 149 applicants who applied for the Hammer Grant in its sixth year, winning for a project currently titled Manos, an experimental short documentary composed of interviews that document the daily routines of Latin-American immigrant workers in the service industry of New York City.
July 21 & 22, 2023
Plein Jour
47 avenue de la République, 93170 Bagnolet
Braquage presents DE LA LUNE, a collection of screenings, performances, and experiences based around the phases of the moon, including Barbara Hammer's film Moon Goddess.
film:art Presents “Porn Classics”
July 18, 18:30
City 46
Birkenstraße 1, Bremen, Germany
The event is part of the public lecture series “Critical Porn Studies – Artistic-Media Positions and New Perspectives”, which deals with the artistic and queer-feminist strategies and media production and reception processes of pornography.
Nitrate Kisses one of IndieWire’s Greatest LGBTQ Documentaries of All Time
Queer movies and TV shows are all well and good, but arguably even more important is the existence of great LGBTQ documentaries. Fiction can help provide great representation and tell moving queer stories, but documentary does something else entirely: it preserves entire communities’ stories as snapshots in humanity’s kaleidoscopic history.
Artsy’s 7 Older LGBTQIA+ Artists Who Paved the Way for the Next Generation
Today, many younger queer artists and curators are amplifying the work of their predecessors to create an intergenerational narrative of artistic exchange, as well as a genealogy through which we might read their work.
MicroCinema: Tribute to Barbara Hammer
Wednesday, June 14, 7:00pm
Crosstown Theater
Memphis, TN
In honor of the incredible experimental lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to bring this Tribute to Barbara Hammer for this month’s MicroCinema.
History Lessons Screening at Champs-Élysées Film Festival
June 22nd, 18:15
Le Lincoln
14 rue Lincoln, 75008, Paris
A historical reflection and a thematic excursion into the past to meet iconic founding movies of a certain kind of independence: rage of living, resistance, rebellion and freedom.