“Schizy” (1968), film still (courtesy the Estate of Barbara Hammer, Company, KOW, and Electronic Arts Intermix)

Barbara Hammer’s film, “Schizy (1968) was featured in “Sixties Surreal: new exhibition offers an alternative view of the decade” by the Guardian!

“‘Women artists are such a huge protagonist in this story, because they were looking for new ways to explore the life that they were living and throw off dominant ideologies,’ said Rothkopf. ‘That’s also why you’ll find lots of queer artists and artists of color in this show. They were looking for these liberatory impulses.’

The show collects two snaps by feminist photographer and director Barbara Hammer, as well as her first film Schizy, about which she has said: ‘[It] was about learning how to see double. What was the reality I saw? And what was expected of me? And how did other people see me. So, schizophrenic.’ Shooting through bifocal lenses, Hammer offered a deeply personal sense of her fractured experience as a woman in the 60s, launching a wildly successful career in film, albeit one that did not receive due recognition until decades later.”

Read the full review here.