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Friday, May 15, 2020 (Content accessible with ticket until Midnight Thursday, May 28th.)
Frameline
Online
Frameline celebrates the birthday of the inimitable filmmaker Barbara Hammer with the virtual cinema release of DYKES, CAMERA, ACTION! a feature documentary which explores the rich legacy of lesbian cinema Hammer inspired as one of the preeminent female filmmakers of the 20th century, and the first openly gay female director in America.
4 Hammer films among digitized Julia Stoschek Collection, now viewable online
Julia Stoschek Collection
Online
Collector Julia Stoschek is working to ensure that many of the works in her collection are now available online, including video works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Barbara Hammer, and Cao Fei.
ULTRA DOGME VIRTUAL FILM FESTIVAL’s “UDVFF: Program 4 – In Proximity”
April 2020
Ultradogme.com
Online
Hammer's Vital Signs (1991) featured alongside works by Jonas Mekas, Lynne Sachs, Robert Beavers, Margaret Tait, Su Friedrich, Alice Anne Parker, Stephen Dwoskin, and Chris Marker.
Cancelled: A Tribute to Barbara Hammer—Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
Thursday, March 26, 2020, 7-9:30PM
Yale Film Study Center
Whitney Humanities Center 53 Wall St, New Haven, Connecticut 06511
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive celebrates the life and legacy of pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) with a special screening of experimental short films she made in the 1970s and 1980s. The program will feature an introduction by Ron Gregg, Senior Lecturer in Film at Columbia University. A presentation of the Yale Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney with support from Paul L. Joskow ’70 M.Phil., ’72 Ph.D.
Postponed: “On Collaboration,” screenings at Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
Screening of Superdyke Meets Madame X (1975), along with Rhythm in Light (dirs. Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth, & Melville Webber, 1934, US, 5 min., video), Warm Objects (dir. Peggy Ahwesh, 2007, US, 6 min., video), and Emaki/Light (dir. Takashi Makino, 2011, Japan, 16 min., video).
“In Company With: Barbara Hammer” streaming online, Art News Editors’ Picks, and other features
March 23 - June 30, 2020 (tbc)
Company Gallery
As part of Company Gallery's "In Company With" series, a selection of films by Barbara Hammer will be available for viewing online.
Retrospective at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge among others postponed
"Sisters!" exhibition opening in Barcelona temporarily postponed due to COVID-19. 
“Hommage à Barbara Hammer” at Festival Ecrans Mixtes, Lyon, France
Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 4:45PM
Festival Ecrans Mixtes
Cinéma Opéra, Lyon, France
Tribute screenings at 2020 Festival Ecrans Mixtes, Lyon, France.
No No Nooky TV at Rex Fest, Helsinki, Finland, March 2
Monday, March 2, 2020
Amos Rex
Helsinki, Finland
No No Nooky TV screening with seven other films.
Doc/Nights Presents: Barbara Hammer – For Her Pleasure at ShowRoom Workstation Sheffield, UK
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Showroom Cinema
Showroom & Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX
Doc/Nights presents a selection of shorts from the maverick queer cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer (1939-2019), exploring the female body, desire and pleasure through experimentations with film. Having made 80 moving image pieces over a period of nearly 50 years, For Her Pleasure offers a rare chance to see the work of a true radical – one who has inspired a generation of feminist and lesbian artists and filmmakers.
Tribute to Barbara Hammer, Screenings at Toronto Media Centre’s Pleasure Dome
Monday, February 18, 2020
Toronto Media Arts Centre
32 Lisgar St., Toronto
Celebrate the pioneering feminist films by artist Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) presented by re:assemblage collective, CFMDC, and Pleasure Dome with works from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) collection. All funds received from the evenings program will be donated to the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant Fund
Barbara Hammer in 92nd Academy Awards’ Oscars in Memoriam
February 9, 2020
92nd Academy Awards' Oscars
Barbara Hammer features in the 2020 Academy Awards In Memoriam
Akosua Adoma Owusu’s Welcome to the Jungle and A Salute to Barbara Hammer at MoMA NY
Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 4:30 PM
Museum of Modern Art, New York
MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2 The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Before she died of cancer in 2019, the legendary artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer enlisted several of her friends, including Deborah Stratman, Lynne Sachs, and Mark Street, to draw upon her archive of abandoned projects and unused materials to make new work. The result is a testament to Hammer’s generosity, courage, and fierce, lifelong commitment to putting images of women, queer people, the aging, and the otherwise marginalized onto our movie screens and into our collective conscience. Program 69 min.
“Body and Soul: Barbara Hammer and Su Friedrich” at MoMA NY
Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 4:30PM
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Screenings of Barbara Hammer's Moon Goddess (1975) and Sanctus (1990), Cool Hands, and Su Friedrich's Warm Heart (1979), and First Comes Love (1991).
The Hammer Mix: Decades at MoMA NY
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 7pm
The Museum of Modern Art - Titus 1 Theater
Queer|Art and The Museum of Modern Art team up for their first co-presentation with “The Hammer Mix: Decades,” a special evening of screenings and conversation organized in honor of legendary artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939-2019).
Color Me Barbara, Retrospective at NewsFest, NY
October 26, 2019 at 11:30AM
Cinépolis Chelsea – Theater 8
260 W 23rd St. New York, NY 10011
COLOR ME BARBARA pairs Hammer’s works, memorable and underseen, with recent shorts by the latest and greatest experimental filmmakers who have been nourished by her films and friendship, including Scott Miller Berry, Joey Carducci, Liz Rosenfeld, Sasha Wortzel, and the winners of the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaker Grant, Fair Brane and Miatta Kawinzi. By becoming the first, Hammer ensured we would never go without.
A Tribute to Barbara Hammer, Screenings at DocLisboa
October 24 - 30, 2019
Doclisboa
Casa do Cinema Rua da Rosa, 277–2º 1200-385 Lisboa
Tribute screenings to Barbara Hammer in Lisbon.
Barbara Hammer: Ecstatic Subjectivity, tribute at Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival
October 22, 2019, 8-9:30PM
UWM Union Cinema
2nd Floor, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. Milwaukee, WI 53211
Three rich programs or recent restorations and new 16mm prints celebrating the career of Barbara Hammer, the singularly pioneering, lesbian feminist experimental filmmaker
Barbara Hammer Screenings at La Cinémathèque Québécoise Montreal
September 9 - 21, 2019
La Cinémathèque Québécoise
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
La Cinémathèque Québécoise launches its fall programming with lots of interesting activities during September and October.
Barbara Hammer: Boundless, tribute screenings at National Gallery of Art, WA DC
September 7 - 22, 2019
National Gallery of Art
East Building Auditorium, Washington DC
Exploring lesbian identity, politics, and personal narrative, and delving into visceral manifestations of pleasure, pain, aging, and infirmity, Hammer used the camera as an extension of her body to discover ways of communicating experience. Her purposeful engagement with audiences fostered and influenced many generations of filmmakers, and her groundbreaking work shaped contemporary film culture in multiple ways. This series includes examples of films and videos that Hammer made in shorter formats, although her oeuvre also embraced feature-length and performance works.
Barbara Hammer’s History Lessons: Screening and Discussion at Whitney
Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 7 PM
Whitney Museum, New York
Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater
Following the screening, Matt Wolf, one of the guest curators for the 2019 Whitney Biennial film program, moderates a conversation with several people who appear in the film. This screening of History Lessons is presented in conjunction with History Lessons Redo: The Meat Market, a 2019 remake by Hammer that will be screened as part of the 2019 Biennial.
Retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image
July 19 - July 28, 2019
Museum of the Moving Image, New York
A retrospective of seven Barbara Hammer Films. Organized by KJ Relth and Mark Toscano. Co-presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and UCLA Film and Television Archive
Tues, June 25, 2019, 1:00 PM · Castro
San Francisco, CA
A deep, affectionate look at the life and work of five remarkable queer artists: the late, legendary filmmaker Barbara Hammer; the inimitable poet, Eileen Myles; Rasheedah Phillips & Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) of the revelatory multimedia Black Quantum Futurism collective; and wildly innovative performance artist Jibz Cameron (aka Dynasty Handbag). Please join San Francisco filmmaker Jenni Olson for a pre-screening tribute to Barbara Hammer (1939-2019).
“Barbara Hammer: The Body in Film”
Thursday, June 06, 2019 – Thursday, June 20, 2019
Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
1871 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43210
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body, this three-evening series draws conceptual and formal parallels between Hammer's gallery work and her films, showcasing Hammer’s contributions to experimental cinema and her undisputed status as a pioneer of queer and feminist filmmaking. Don’t miss Hammer’s No No Nooky T.V., on view in The Box this June.
Jennifer Lange and Paul Hill on Barbara Hammer
Thursday, June 06, 2019, 5:30 PM
Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
1871 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43210
Join Jennifer Lange and Paul Hill, curator and editor for the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio, for a closer look at the exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body.
“Barbara Hammer: In This Body” at Wexner
June 1, 2019 - August 1, 2019
Wexner Center for the Arts
1871 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43210
The centerpiece of the new exhibition is Evidentiary Bodies, an immersive, three-channel video installation that draws imagery from previous works to poignantly synthesize the artist’s life in film and her life with cancer.
A Tribute to Barbara Hammer: Making Movies out of Sex and Life, NW Film Forum
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
Co-presented with Engauge Experimental Film Festival
BARBARA HAMMER: CINEMA OF INTIMACY, highlighting Bay Area roots
April 25, 2019
Roxie, Co-Presented by Canyon Cinema Foundation
San Francisco, CA
In tribute to film legend Barbara Hammer (1939–2019), this program highlights a selection of the artist’s early films rooted in the Bay Area. Celebration of the Life of Barbara Hammer
Sunday April 21, 2019 - 5pm
Abrons Art Center, Playhouse Theatre
466 Grand Street, Lower East Side
A celebration of the life of Barbara Hammer (5/15/39–3/16/19).