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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.
No No Nooky T.V. Featured in Cinematek’s Our Story Series
June 23, 19:00
Cinematek
Baron Horta 9, 1000 Brussels
CINEMATEK celebrates LGBTQ filmmaking with the Our Story series. On June 23rd, see a collection of short films including Barbara Hammer’s No No Nooky TV, and don’t miss Cinematek’s Our Stories series throughout the year.
Light Cone Scratch Projection: Vers La Lumière (Towards the Light)
Friday June 16, 2023, 20:30
Luminor Hôtel de Ville
20 rue du Temple 75004 Paris, France
These films' sensuous qualities will guide us: the alternation of warm, magenta, blue or white tones, soft color spectra, and their dependence on tropical or arctic light; or the gradual increase of scale, from door and window frames to the immensity of a landscape that is both enclosing and liberating.
June 1-4, 2023
Cinemateca Brasileira
Largo Sen. Raul Cardoso, 207 - Vila Clementino, São Paulo, Brazil
To start dismantling the ageism that afflicts not only the audiovisual sector, but the LGBTQIA+ community itself, Cinemateca Brasileira brings to the public a selection of films from different countries and decades. With stories that bring struggles, fears, desires and joys, the exhibition reveals the plurality of experiences of queer people in this phase of life.
(S8) Peripheral Film Festival Presents Carte Blanche Light Cone
Saturday, June 3rd, 5:00pm
Sala (S8) Palexco
Mlle. de Trasatlánticos, s/n, 15003 A Coruña, La Coruña, Spain
This programme puts forward a set of films preserved in the Light Cone collection in 16 mm copies. The theme that lends structure to the selection is colour, and it aims to show how certain filmmakers have thought of colour-matter as a crucial component in their films’ composition. Barbara Hammer's Place Mattes will be screened.
“Available Space” Closing Screening organized by Brydie O’Connor
June 1st from 5pm to 7pm
Company Gallery
145 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY 10012
Company Gallery presents two closing events for solo exhibitions by Barbara Hammer, "Available Space", and Katherine Hubbard, "The great room".
Queer Cinema, Top to Bottom at MoMI
May 19 — Jul 2, 2023
Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
To mark the release of The Queer Film Guide: 100 Films That Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories, author and critic Kyle Turner has guest programmed a selection of films that epitomize the complex, contradictory, and compelling ways queerness finds itself as code, language, or point of view, and underline how cinema can look back at itself, disassembling notions of desire, selfhood, and identity.
‘Available Space’ Exhibition at Company Gallery
April 29 - June 3, 2023 Opening Reception: April 29, 6–8 pm
Company Gallery
145 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY 10012
To honor what would have been the artist’s 84th birthday this May, Company is pleased to present Barbara Hammer, Available Space. The exhibition is comprised of three films that span the 70s, 80s, and the early 2000s, taking its title from Hammer’s 1979 film of the same name, characterized by the artist’s aim to liberate the medium from the confines by which it had become known.
Bodies and their Fleeting Parts: Curated by Daniela Zahlner
April 16, 2023, 8:00PM
Centro de Cultura Digital
Mexico City
The films that make up this program are a love song to transgressive, compulsive, in love, hyperbolic and rebellious bodies, bodies that emanate a certain urgency.
Barbara Hammer & Hudinilson Jr – SAO PAOLO
OPENING MAR 25-26, CLOSING APR 29, 2023
Galeria Jacqueline Martins
Sao Paolo, Brazil
KOW and Galerie Jaqueline Martins are simultaneously showing in Berlin and São Paulo two pioneers of queer emancipation: Barbara Hammer, born in Hollywood in 1939, and Hudinilson Jr, born in São Paulo in 1957. Barbara Hammer & Hudinilson Jr – BERLIN
MAR 17 – APR 15, 2023
KOW
Berlin, Germany
KOW and Galerie Jaqueline Martins are simultaneously showing in Berlin and São Paulo two pioneers of queer emancipation: Barbara Hammer, born in Hollywood in 1939, and Hudinilson Jr, born in São Paulo in 1957.
Barbara Hammer: Would you like to meet your neighbor?
March 5 - June 18, 2023
Skulpturenmuseum Marl
Marl, Germany
The Skulpturenmuseum Marl shows a cross-section of Barbara Hammer's oeuvre, which spans over 50 years, and offers a spotlight on the development of aesthetic and narrative means of film and video art.
Classic queer films at BAM/PFA
March 3 - May 3, 2023
2155 Center St. Berkeley
Beginning on March 3, the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive will host a two-month series called Pioneers of Queer Cinema. The Bay Area installment is part of a nationwide tour that highlights some of the most important LGBTQ films to emerge from American independent cinema over the past half-decade.
Smithsonian American Art Museum Acquires Artworks by Barbara Hammer
Company Gallery is proud to announce the acquisition of the groundbreaking work of Barbara Hammer by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The acquisition includes two of the artist's seminal films, "Pond and Waterfall" & "Optic Nerve".
Dozens of visual artists showcase queer love in group exhibition
Feb 18 - Apr 6, 2023
New York, NY
Nicholas Boston reviews “Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art”, an exhibition in two locations: the Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx, and La MaMa Galleria in the East Village.
Barbara Hammer Works included in Expose-es exhibition at Palais de Tokyo
February 17 - May 14, 2023
Palais de Tokyo
13 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris, France
The book that inspired this exhibition, Elisabeth Lebovici’s Ce que le sida m’a fait—Art et activisme à la fin du 20e siècle [What AIDS Did to Me—Art and Activism at the End of the 20th Century] looks to sew back together subjective fragments of the deadliest epidemic of the last century: the facts, works, ideas and emotions that linked the material to the immaterial.
Revisiting the Past – Imagining the Future
Friday, January 27, 2023 to Sunday, July 9, 2023
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library
121 Wall St, New Haven, CT
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library hopes to inspire an engagement with the past to transform the future. This exhibition features books, manuscripts, and visual materials from many different time periods and locations, and includes five of Barbara Hammer's handmade costumes.