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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.
Welcome To This House Screenings
September/October 2015
Screenings in Halifax, Canada; Lisboa, Portugal; Rio, Brazil; Copenhagen, Denmark; Seattle, USA and Ottawa, Canada.
August 2015
CHRCH Project Space
Cottekill, NY
Select artists from the Hudson Valley Community collaborated to manipulate snippets from Barbara Hammer's extensive film archive to create a new work of art.
American Originals Now: Barbara Hammer, June 20 – 28
June 20 - 28, 2015
West Building Lecture Hall
Screenings of Maya Deren’s Sink, Resisting Paradise, My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities, Diving Women of Jeju-Do, Lover/Other , Tender Fictions, and a talk.
Welcome to This House screens at MoMA NY, May 26 – June 1
May 26 - June 1, 2015
Museum of Modern Art
New York
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film.
Welcome to This House, about Elizabeth Bishop, premiering at Boston LGBT Film Festival
Friday, April 10th
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston is proud to announce that acclaimed director Barbara Hammer will be world premiering her new film on poet Elizabeth Bishop at the 31st Annual Boston LGBT Film Festival!
Lecture and Screening at KOW Berlin in conjunction with “Have a Crush”
Saturday, Feb 7, 7PM
KOW Berlin
Barbara Hammer will show six of her films related to the works on paper currently exhibited at KOW, and she will give insight in her artistic methodologies as a feminist filmmaker. Welcome to This House, a new film about Elizabeth Bishop by Barbara Hammer
Welcome To This House (2015) is a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of art making without full self-disclosure. Hammer filmed in Bishop’s ‘best loved homes’ in the U.S., Canada, and Brazil believing that buildings and landscapes bear cultural memories.
“The Risky Visions of Barbara Hammer,” Retrospective at Jeu de Paume, Paris
June 12 to July 1, 2012
Jeu de Paume
Paris
Retrospective of American experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
Tate Modern Retrospective — BARBARA HAMMER: THE FEARLESS FRAME
Friday, February 3 – Sunday, February 26, 2012
The Tate Modern
London, UK
This major survey of Hammer’s work will be launched with the premiere of her new short film, Maya Deren’s Sink2011, a tribute to Deren’s longstanding influence on the artist.
Workshop, “Developing Personal Imagery”
October 5, 2011
Banff Centre
British Columbia, Canada
“This workshop is for all artists of any medium, including text and sound. A personally developed visualization process using relaxation techniques will release images in the body of the participant. Diagrams, drawings, words and colors will become a “life-size” script score that will be shared. Collaborations of art projects may result from the process. All are welcome! It’s fun!!"
“Barbara Hammer as Claude Cahun in A Gay Bar,” performance at The Kitchen, NY
The Kitchen
New York
Barbara Hammer as Claude Cahun in A Gay Bar