NEWS
ARTICLE: “A Film Lover’s Guide to Sapphic Cinema” by A Rabbit’s Foot
From groundbreaking classics to modern masterpieces, we round up a selection of essential features that capture the complexity of the sapphic experience—rich and diverse portrayals of identity and resilience that have shaped what lesbian love looks like on screen.
SCREENING: “Dyke Tactics”, “Menses”, and “Multiple Orgasm” at Festival Obscure
Barbara Hammer's films "Dyke Tactics" (1974), "Menses" (1974), and "Multiple Orgasm" (1976) are screening at Festival Obskura in Rennes, France on July 2, 2025!
SCREENING: “Women I Love” and “Nitrate Kisses” at the Lichtspiel/Kinemathek Bern
Screening on July 14th
SCREENING: Tone Glow Presents “The Places Between Our Bodies”
Tone Glow presents the film program “The Place Between Our Bodies” — a showcase of queer short films made between 1965 and 1984.
SCREENING: She’s Beautiful, Sexy, Angry and Liberated! + live readings at the Barbican Centre
Barbara Hammer's films, "Dyketactics", "Superdyke", "Women I Love", and "Double Strength" will be screened at the Barbican Centre in London, UK, on June 11, 2025.
Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture
Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture is on view though September 2nd at the Center for Architecture.
SCREENING: “Double Strength” and “Dyketactics” at Music Box Theatre
Barbara Hammer's films, "Double Strength" (1978) and "Dyketactics" (1974) will be featured in Sapphopalooza at Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL on May 17, 2025.
Group Exhibition: “These Letters Don’t Run – LGBTQ” at Keijsers Koning
“These Letters Don’t Run - LGBTQ” includes several works on paper by Barbara Hammer
Circulo de Bellas Artes presents Screening LAV#027: Soft cuts through the razor’s edge
April 5th, 7:00pm
Circulo de Bellas Artes
Alcalá 42, 28014 Madrid
An evening of short films in 16mm followed by a 10 minute performance by Yun Ping.
International Frauen Film Fest Presents Art on the MOve: Radical Flux – Fluxus und Punk
27 February, 19:00
Level 6 in the Dortmunder U / Museum Ostwall
Dortmund, Germany
A film program about female self-determination, experimental film technique and narrative structure as well as the subversion of stereotypical representations in a heteronormative society – all in the spirit of the DIY punk ethos.
mumok presents Some Butterflies
Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 7 pm
mumok - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien
Vienna
Between reality and fantasy, simulation and parody, this film program brings together idiosyncratic artistic positions that move through surreal landscapes, industrial ruins, iconic architecture or eclectic, trashy, and everyday backdrops in different times.
Barbara Hammer to be Honored at 2025 Berlinale Film Festival
February 22, 7:30pm
Berlin
Barbara Hammer, a three-time Teddy Award winner, is being honored at this year's Berlinale International Film Festival with a screening of three of her short films in the Forum and Forum Expanded sections. SCREENING: “Double Strength” at Galeria Municipal de Arte de Almada
Barbara Hammer's film "Double Strength" (1978) will be screened at Galeria Municipal de Arte de Almada in Almada, Portugal February 8, 2025!
The Museum of Modern Art Acquires Sync Touch by Barbara Hammer
The Museum of Modern Art has acquired Barbara Hammer’s seminal film, Sync Touch (1981), currently on view as part of the exhibition Vital Signs: Artists and the Body, curated by Lanka Tattersall and Margarita Lizcano Hernandez, on view through February 22, 2025.
The Whitney Museum of American Art Acquires Evidentiary Bodies by Barbara Hammer
We are delighted to announce that Evidentiary Bodies has been acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Evidentiary Bodies (2018) combines many of Barbara Hammer's signature techniques into a powerful final work that reflects both her life as a filmmaker and her experience with cancer.
Contemporary Film Session Programmed by Salomé Lamas
January 10, 2025, 7:15pm
Batalha Cinema Center
Porto, Portugal
A screening of four films programmed by filmmaker Salomé Lamas, including Barbara Hammer's Dyketactics.
ICA London presents The Female Closet & discussion with Nicole Eisenman and Andrew Durbin
Tuesday 17 December, 6:15pm
ICA London, Cinema 1
The Mall, London
The Female Closet (1998), combines rare footage, interviews, and rich visual documentation to survey the lives of three variously closeted and not-so-closeted artists from different segments of the 20th century: Victorian photographer Alice Austen, Weimar collagist Hannah Höch, and contemporary artist Nicole Eisenman.
L’association Solaris Videodrome 2 Project presents DOUBLE VISION
Thursday, December 19, 8:30 p.m.
Videodrome 2
49 Cours Julien, 13006 Marseille
DOUBLE VISION is a monthly program that takes radical, transformative and visionary works of cinema and pairs them with their mirror selves.