NEWS
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
“Available Space,” performance at Athens Film Festival, Ohio
Athens Film Festival
Ohio
"Available Space," performance at Athens Film Festival, Ohio
World Premiere of “Maya Deren’s Sink,” The Berlin International Film Festival
Friday, February 11th, 2011 6-10pm
Koch Oberhuber Wolff
Berlin, Germany
In conjunction with Barbara Hammer Solo Exhibition opening: Friday, February 11th, 2011 at Koch Oberhuber Wolff
“Barbara Hammer,” Retrospective screenings at MoMA NY
September 15–October 13, 2010
Museum of Modern Art
New York
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film. Special thanks to Canyon Cinema.
Hammer Retrospective at MoMA NY
September 15-October 13, 2010
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
11 West 53rd Street, New York City
A retrospective of works by experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer (American, b. 1939) spanning from 1968 to today, including the world premiere of her new film Generations (2010), made in collaboration with Gina Carducci, will be shown at The Museum of Modern Art from September 15 through October 13, 2010.
HAMMER! Book release tour, March – October, 2011
March 3 - October 11, 2010
Multiple locations
Worldwide
Barbara will be in LA, NYC, Ann Arbor, London, Toronto, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and back in NYC.
May 17, 2009
A filmic celebration of Barbara's 70th on May 17, 2009.
Festival de Films des Femmes, Creteil, Paris
March 2009
FESTIVAL DE FILMS DES FEMMES
CRETEIL, PARIS
Screenings of Barbara's work
Screenings at BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL
February 10 - 13, 2009
Berlin Film Festival
Germany
2/10 – 17:45 A Horse Is Not A Metaphor and other films Arsenal 1 2/13 – 1pm Horse Is Not A Metaphor and other films Arsenal 1