NEWS
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.
My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities Available to View on EAI.org
Through May 30, 2022
EAI.org
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and the Estate of Barbara Hammer have made Hammer’s 2001 personal documentary My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities available to view through May 30th. As the artist writes, this timely video “centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for her own ethnic roots, identity and family history in Ukraine.”
A Screening of Films by Barbara Hammer presented by White Columns
Wednesday, March 2, 2022, Doors at 6:30pm, Screening at 7pm
Performance Space New York
150 1st Ave, New York, NY
White Columns is pleased to present A Screening of films by Barbara Hammer. This event is organized on the occasion of the current exhibition Looking Back – The 12th White Columns Annual – selected by Mary Manning.
Love, Barbara to Premiere at Santa Barbara Film Festival
Santa Barbara Film Festival
Santa Barbara, CA
Love, Barbara will have its world premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival as part of the Doc Shorts: Art and the Artist program, screening Monday, March 7th at 8:10 AM at the Metro Theatre #2, and Wednesday, March 9th at 4:20 PM at the Fiesta Theatre #4.
QUEER GENIUS Available to Stream on International Women’s Day, March 8th
Premiering March 8th
Virtual
The series features thought-provoking portraits of five queer artists working across genres and mediums, overcoming personal and political obstacles to find new ways to live and share visionary creative practices.Lynne Sachs and Ann Arbor Film Festival Campaign to Increase Barbara Hammer Award Endowment
Lynne and the Ann Arbor Film Festival are beginning a campaign to increase the endowment for the $500 annual award from its present $5,000 to $15,000. Read more to learn how to contribute.
February 3, 2022 - 8:00pm
Luminor Hôtel de Ville
Paris
Light Cone is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a Scratch Projection program including Barbara Hammer's "I Was/I Am"
The Personal Is Archival: Barbara Hammer’s Creation of Feminist History
Chapter 4 of Laura Stamm's The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era investigates Barbara Hammer’s creation and use of queer archives to tell stories—via particular lesbians—of lesbian cultures past.
RESCHEDULED: Pioneers of Queer Cinema Retrospective Celebrates LGBTQ+ Cinematic Achievements
Series running Jan 22-Mar 20, 2022; Nitrate Kisses screening Friday, March 11, 2022 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater
UCLA
Screening Jan. 22-Mar. 20, “Pioneers of Queer Cinema” will showcase 33 landmark works of LGBTQ+ moving image history, illuminated by conversations with the visionary artists and storytellers who made them. Barbara Hammer's Nitrate Kisses will screen on March 11, with Q&A with Florrie Burke.
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual
January 22–March 5, 2022
New York, NY
White Columns is excited to reinstate its Annual exhibition, Looking Back, for its 12th iteration, curated by the New York-based artist Mary Manning. The exhibition will be presented throughout all of White Columns’ galleries, alongside a parallel screening of Barbara Hammer’s films at The Center.
History Lessons — The Present of Feminist/Queer Film Curation in Japan
March 6, 2022 - 1:00-5:45pm
Zoom
Japan-Only Online Event
Subversive Records has invited experts and practitioners of feminist/queer film theory and curation in Japan to discuss how issues of gender and sexuality intersect within the realm of film and its curation, and to shed light on the present of feminist/queer film curation in Japan. The event includes a screening of Barbara Hammer's History Lessons.
Nitrate Kisses at Stray Cat Film Center
Mon, January 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM CST
Stray Cat Film Center
Kansas City, MO
Iconic lesbian feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer's archival classic
“Thoughts On Making Films With Barbara Hammer” Published in Camera Obscura
This personal essay articulates filmmaker Lynne Sachs’s experiences working with experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Sachs conveys the journey of her relationship with Hammer when they were both artists living in San Francisco in the late 1980s and 1990s and then later in New York City.
“Tell me there is a lesbian forever…” Included in NY Times Best Art Exhibitions List
New York Times's "Best Art Exhibitions of 2021" includes Company Gallery's "Tell me there is a lesbian forever...".
A Month of Single Frames Screening at Metrograph
December 10, 11, 12
Metrograph Theater
7 Ludlow Street
Lynne Sachs will participate in a post-screening conversation with special guest feminist scholar Silvia Federici, a longtime advocate for the recognition of unwaged labor and a founder of the Wages for Housework movement.
The Future Of Film Is Female 2021 Fall Short Film Fund Recipients Revealed
The recipients include Brydie O’Connor for Love, Barbara.
December 6th, 7:30 PM
Ted Mann Theater
Programmed and notes by UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Programmer K.J. Relth-Miller and Academy Film Archive Senior Film Preservationist Mark Toscano