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Images from Menses - a film by Barbara Hammer

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.

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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.

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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.

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Image from Multiple Orgasm - a film by 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.

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Gorki Queer Week 2024

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.

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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.

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Still from Haircut - film by Barbara Hammer

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.

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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.

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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.

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Still from Bent Time by Barbara Hammer

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.

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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.

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Image from Nitrate Kisses - feature length film by Barbara Hammer

AFW + NFSA: 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).

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Still Point a film by Barbara Hammer

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.

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Image from Optic Nerve - film by Barbara Hammer

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.

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Image from Nitrate Kisses - feature length film by Barbara Hammer

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival: “Citizen Queer” – Grand tribute of LGBTQI+ documentaries

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.

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Image from No No Nooky TV - a film by Barbara Hammer

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.

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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.

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CINEINFINITO Screening Barbara Hammer Films

March 15th

CINEINFINITO

Santander, Spain

On March 15th, CINEINFINITO will be screening Dyketactics, Nitrate Kisses, and Resisting Paradise.

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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.

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Bent time by 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.

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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.

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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.

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Image from Nitrate Kisses - feature length film by Barbara Hammer

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.

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Image from Our Grief is Not a Cry for War - film 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.

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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".

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Image from Nitrate Kisses - feature length film by Barbara Hammer

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)!

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