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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).
Barbara Hammer: Compassion & Choices | NY, interview on end-of-life activism
Compassion & Choices
New York
Hammer on why she supports expanding end of life options in New York.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Film at Lincoln Center
To commemorate the passing of pioneering experimentalist Barbara Hammer, Art of the Real presents a free program featuring one of Hammer’s most indelible works—the 1978 portrait of sapphic intimacy Double Strength (15m, in 16mm)—alongside two 2018 homages.
New York Times: “Barbara Hammer, Filmmaker of Lesbian Sexuality”
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
New York Times
An obituary of the life of Barbara Hammer, by Richard Sandomir.
“Barbara Hammer’s Exit Interview” in the NEW YORKER
Monday, February 25, 2019
New Yorker Print March 2019
The pioneering filmmaker talks with Masha Gessen about her career, her quest to die with dignity, and why being a lesbian is so much fun. November 9, 2018 - December 15, 2018 In-person: Barbara Hammer (11/9, 11/10).
Billy Wilder Theater
With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Archive is proud to present five programs of films by Barbara Hammer, nearly all of which will be shown in restored or newly struck prints from the Academy Film Archive. A screening of Hammer's debut feature Nitrate Kisses (1992) will also take place at AFI FEST on November 11.
2018 Stan Brakhage Vision Award Celebration at Denver Film Society
Sunday, November 4 at 7PM
Sie FilmCenter
Denver, Colorado
Barbara Hammer will be presented with the 2018 Stan Brakhage Vision Award at 7:00pm on Sunday, November 4, at the Sie FilmCenter. A reception follows in her honor.
“A More Daring Pleasure,” ARTFORUM
October 22, 2018
ARTFORUM
Corrine Fitzpatrick on Barbara Hammer’s performative lecture at the Whitney Museum
The Art of Dying or (Palliative Art Making in the Age of Anxiety)
Wednesday, October 10, 6:30 PM
Whitney Museum of American Art
Floor 3, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater
Inspired by Rainer Marie Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, 79 year old lesbian artist Barbara Hammer ruminates on the experiences of living with advanced cancer while making art. In a performative lecture, Hammer shares guidelines and film clips from her long-term art making practice.
West Coast Premiere of Welcome to This House, a film about Elizabeth Bishop
West Coast Premiere of Welcome to This House at San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Frameline.
ARTFORUM Print April 2018
Rachel Churner on the art of Barbara Hammer
Oral history interview with Smithsonian Archives of American Art
March 2018
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
An interview with Barbara Hammer conducted March 15 and 17, 2018 by Svetlana Kitto, for the Archives of American Art at Hammer's spouse's home in New York, New York.
Evidentiary Bodies World Premiere at 2018 Berlin International Film Festival
Wednesday - Sunday, February 21-25, 2018
Berlin International Film Festival
Various locations
Four screenings and related events in Berlin.
Interview with Alexandra Juhasz, BROOKLYN RAIL
December 17, 2017 - January 18, 2018
BROOKLYN RAIL
"Over tea and croissants at her Westbeth Studio, filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer met feminist film scholar and filmmaker Dr. Alexandra Juhasz for a lively back and forth about Hammer’s New York city-wide retrospective..."
“Truant: Photographs, 1970 – 1970” at COMPANY Gallery
Sunday, October 22, 2017 at 6PM
COMPANY Gallery
88 Eldridge Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10002
Opening October 22, with a full schedule of affiliated screenings and events, through December!
BARBARA HAMMER: Evidentiary Bodies, Retrospective at Leslie Lohman
October 3, 2017 - 6-9pm
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art
26 Wooster Street, New York City
Bringing together both known and previously unseen works of film and video, installations, works on paper, and material from her archive, this exhibition addresses critical themes that appear in Barbara Hammer’s work...
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
The archives consist of notebooks, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs spanning several decades. They will be open for research in 2018 following archival processing.
May 13 – November 26, 2017
Palazzo Fortuny
Venice, Italy
In making Sanctus I was concerned about the contradictory qualities of beauty and danger of the images that were made by radiation. I delighted in the imagery and at the same time I imagined the deleterious effects of the image making on the subjects.