NEWS
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.Screening of Barbara Hammer Films
Saturday, January 14th, 3-5 PM
Keijsers Koning
150 Manufacturing Street, Ste 201, Dallas, TX
As part of the "Breathing Amongst Werewolves" exhibition, we are pleased to invite you to the film screening of Barbara Hammer's work.
Group Exhibition: Breathing Amongst Werewolves
December 3, 2022 – January 28, 2023; Wed-Sat, 11am-5pm
Keijsers Koning
150 Manufacturing Street, 201, Dallas, TX 75207
"Breathing Amongst Werewolves" group exhibition featuring Liz Cohen, M Florine Démosthène, Beya Gille Gacha, Barbara Hammer, io, and Tamara Johnson
REVIEW: “Love, Barbara” tells a touching story about real love
Though the documentary is brief, “Love, Barbara,” directed by Byrdie O’Connor, is a touching expression of love.
Melbourne Cinematheque Presents Queering the Archive: the Cinema of Barbara Hammer
26 Oct - 2 Nov, 2022
Cinema 1, Level 2 ACMI, Fed Square
Melbourne, Australia
This tribute includes a broad range of Hammer’s eclectic shorts and features from across her career dealing with diverse themes including the lesbian experience, lesbian histories, concepts of time and space, endangered species and artistic forms, and aging and death.
AFI FEST 2022 Announces Full Festival Lineup, Including Short Film “Love, Barbara”
Love, Barbara screening on 11/5, 9:45am PT
TCL Chinese 4
Los Angeles, CA
View the full lineup of films to be shown at American Film Institute's 2022 festival, including Brydie O'Connor's "Love, Barbara," a short documentary about the iconic legacy of pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, through the lens and love of her partner of over 30 years, Florrie Burke.Identity and Self-Representation in Barbara Hammer and Chantal Akerman’s Films
November 20, 2022
LE CRÉDAC
Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Interview with Martina Panelli, Doctor of Film Studies and Director of the Jocelyn Wolff Gallery in Paris, on the question of identity and self-representation in the works of Barbara Hammer and Chantal Akerman. Between Sight and Touch: Selected Shorts by Barbara Hammer
September 22, 2022, 7pm
e-flux Screening Room, 172 Classon Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
With a video introduction and special screening by Lynne Sachs
Pioneers of Queer Cinema Comes to Chicago
August 23 & 27, 2022
Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago, IL
Nitrate Kisses will show as part of the series on August 23 & 27. This debut feature from lesbian feminist filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) is an archeological dig of unexplored queer histories, and a commemoration of shared experience across various LGBTQ+ communities.
Outfest Awards Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Short to Brydie O’Connor’s LOVE, BARBARA
Outfest has announced the award winners of its 40th Anniversary Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Outstanding Documentary Short went to Brydie O’Connor’s Love, Barbara.
The Future of Film is Female’s Summer Screening at MoMA
July 26, 7pm
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
Special one-night screening celebrating short films by The FOFIF filmmakers at the Museum of Modern Art: Featuring Brydie O'Connor's "Love, Barbara"
4 July - 25 September 2022; 10:00am-07:30pm
Mecanique Generale
Arles, France
Photographs and Performances of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection, Vienna
Nitrate Kisses Showing at Metrograph Theater
July 2 & 9, 2022
Metrograph Theater
7 Ludlow St, New York, NY
Hammer’s debut feature integrates the experiences of a diverse sampling of figures from the LGBTQ+ community—including a mixed-race gay couple, representative of the S/M community, and an older lesbian couple. Showing as part of the Pioneers of Queer Cinema series.