NEWS
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.
Take Care: Kunst und Medizin (Art and Medicine)
Until July 17, 2022
Kunsthaus Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
The exhibition with over 300 works reveals how the apparently contrasting disciplines of art and medicine reflect physical humanity and the human psyche.
Women I Love Exhibition at Ratio 3
June 24 - August 12, 2022
Ratio 3
San Francisco
Ratio 3 is pleased to present Women I Love, an exhibition of Barbara Hammer’s early photographs and films. The exhibition offers an immersive introduction to the distinctive combination of technical experimentation and earnest intimacy that defined Hammer’s singular vision of lesbian identity and authorship in the 1970s.
Images and Views of Alternative Cinema in Nicosia, Cyprus
June 20-26, 2022
Hambis Printmaking Municipal Museum
Nicosia, Cyprus
The Festival "Images and Views of Alternative Cinema", the annual celebration of the pioneering cinema in our country and the favorite institution of those who are passionate about alternative cinema, returns this summer.
Womanica Podcast Episode 508: Pride on Stage
June 14, 2022
In just 5 minutes a day, learn about different incredible women from throughout history. On Wonder Media Network’s award-winning podcast, we’re telling the stories of women you may or may not know — but definitely should. Episode 508 focuses on groundbreaking and prolific filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
Pools Screening as Part of 45th Norwegian Short Film Festival Special Program: Home
Friday, June 10, 6:00pm
Pan
Grimstad, Norway
Curated by Birgitte Sigmundstad. The program begins and ends with a fire. From the furniture department in Woolworths to the spy Selmer Nilsen’s home in northern Norway. What defines a home, what kind of affiliation you have, and what happens when others define what and where your home should be, runs like a common thread through the films.
Nitrate Kisses Screening at Olhar de Cinema, Curitiba International Film Festival
June 3 and June 7, 2022
Cinemateca de Curitiba / Cine Passeio Ritz
Brazil
In her first feature film after a pioneering journey in experimental cinema, Barbara Hammer sets out in search of the lost remnants of queer existences in images.
AMP Exhibition May 27th-June 22nd
Opening Reception Friday, May 27th, 6-9pm
Art Market Provincetown
432 Commercial St, Provincetown, MA 02657
KATRINA DEL MAR | LOLA FLASH | BARBARA HAMMER | MICHELLE HANDELMAN | BRYDIE O'CONNOR | ALICE O'MALLEY | PAT PLACE | LYNNE SACHS | GAIL THACKER | SUARA WELITOFF
Maya Deren Program at Sesc Avenida Paulista
May 14, 2022, 7:00pm
Sesc avenida paulis
São Paulo, Brazil
For Maya Deren, a film was never finished, it was just “abandoned”. Show with abandoned works by Maya Deren and a short by Barbara Hammer that reflects on recurring themes in the filmmaker's work.
DOXA Documentary Film Festival Includes My Babushka in Virtual Line-Up
May 5, 2022
Virtual
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities will be available to stream starting May 5th as part of DOXA 2022's "Grand-mère. Grandmother. Babushka." series, curated by Laurence Reymond.
April 28–December 4, 2022; Opening April 27, 6–10pm
JSC Berlin
Berlin, Germany
The group exhibition at dawn draws connections between techniques of image production and the social and political work that goes into imagining alternatives to what the late Cuban American thinker José Esteban Muñoz called our “poisonous and insolvent” present. The exhibition includes work by Barbara Hammer.