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Queer|Art Awards Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant to Rraine Hanson
Rraine Hanson (she/they/he) is a queer, gender-nonconforming, Jamaican filmmaker, most interested in utilizing design and mixed media to tell stories centering the experiences and imaginations of queer and trans people of colour.
May 14, 2021
Tune in to the three-episode premiere of PRIDE on FX on Friday, May 14. Barbara Hammer and Florrie Burke will be featured in the third episode, directed by Cheryl Dunye.
Queer Cinema of San Francisco State University
May 4, 2021, 6:00pm
Online
On Tuesday, May 4th at 6 PM, The Archive Project will be putting on a special one-time only screening of queer cinema made by students throughout SFSU’s long history. The presented short films showcase a variety of experiences and genres that speak to the complex history of LGBTQIA+ culture that can be found in San Francisco just by looking at artists who have gone through the university’s doors.
WOMEN I LOVE Exhibition at Franz Josefs Kai 3
May 3, 2021 - May 16, 2021
Franz Josefs Kai 3
Vienna, Austria
This retrospective exhibition, the first of its kind in Austria, focuses on the content and significance of Barbara Hammer's visual interweaving of films, photographs, drawings, collages and performances. The exhibition develops an image of Hammer as a committed activist for the equality of all genders and an advocate for human rights. In films, photographs as well as interviews, the exhibition combines autobiographical material and artistic work that is groundbreaking for many contemporary artists.
Ensemble, group exhibition at Château Shatto
May 1-June 26, 2021
Château Shatto
1206 S. MAPLE AVE, SUITE 1030, LOS ANGELES, CA, 90015
On May 1, an exhibition opens that is formed around the bonds and curiosities shared between galleries, without thematizing these relations. Conversation and cooperation among galleries often functions as a kind of collagen, an invisible and binding substance that ultimately confers a more resilient form.
Westbeth Artists Housing 50th Anniversary
March 26-June, 2021.
Highlighting creative moments and artists who have lived and worked at Westbeth.
March 23-28, 2021.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Online
a sneak preview of the Ann Arbor Film Festival and conversation with Lynne Sachs
Women in Experiment: Carolee Schneemann and Barbara Hammer
March 12-14, 2021, with select films available until March 16.
Rosendale Theatre Live
Online
In honor of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, The Rosendale Theatre is excited to offer the program Women in Experiment: Carolee Schneemann and Barbara Hammer from March 12-14.
I Know the End: A Salon with Light Field
Thursday, February 11th @ 7pm PST
Canyon Cinema
Online
Films by: Barbara Hammer, Toney W. Merritt, Julie Murray, Dana Plays, Sarah Pucill, Rajee Samarasinghe, and Paige Taul. (Image: Sarah Pucill.)
A Fire in My Belly at Julia Stoschek Collection
6 February 2021 – 12 December 2021
Julia Stoschek Collection
Online
Comprising film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, and poetry, the exhibition explores how artists negotiate and transcend these experiences through personal and political gestures of protest and resistance.
OKTOSKOP: A Tribute to Barbara Hammer by Lynne Sachs
January 31, 2021
Oktoshop
Online
Lukas Maurer visited his friend and collaborator, the director Lynne Sachs, in Brooklyn and had a conversation with her about the avant-garde icon as well as her “Tribute to Barbara Hammer.”
January 25-31, 2021
Glasgow Film Festival
Online
An online screenings of Hammer's Nitrate Kisses (1992).
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES – 50TH ANNIVERSARY Screenings
November 25, 2020 – January 31, 2021
Anthology Film Archives
Online
50th Anniversary screenings with film clips by Hammer.
Evidentiary Bodies to screen at Buffalo International Film Festival
On View Oct 8–28, 2020, 10am-8pm Tues-Sat, by appointment only
Eleven Twenty Projects
1120 Main Street, Buffalo NY
Eleven Twenty Projects presents Evidentiary Bodies at BIFF Offscreen
“Would You Like to Meet Your Neighbor?” Exhibition at KOW Berlin
September 11 - November 7, 2020
KOW Berlin
Lindenstraße 35, 10969 Berlin, Germany
On the occasion of the 2020 Gallery Weekend Berlin, KOW is honored to showcase a selection from the wide-ranging oeuvre of Barbara Hammer.
The Art of Dying (or Palliative Art Making in the Age of Anxiety), Revisited
Tuesday, August 25, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET
Compassion & Choices
Online
Join Corinne Carey from Compassion & Choices and Florrie Burke as they screen this captivating event and discuss Barbara's life and death.
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.