Throughout the months of January and February 2024, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) will be showing 27 films by Barbara Hammer.

(Below text translated from Diego Trerotola’s original Spanish write-up)

In the first session of short films by filmmaker Barbara Hammer, the films screened will include:
Double Strength, an exploration of the details of a lesbian relationship; Menses, ironic comedy about the unpleasant aspects of menstruation; No No Nooky T.V., a piece that presents sexuality as a social construction; Sisters, a queer and lesbian milestone based on the only images of the first International Women’s Day march in San Francisco; Sync Touch, investigation into the connection between sexuality and cinema; and X, an experimental film about a woman’s desperation, rage and exhibitionism.

The second session of short films includes Audience, a 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer’s work during the 1980s; Haircut, which shows the ritual of strength that the act of cutting one’s hair can entail; Multiple Orgasm, an experimental piece in which a hand plays with a vagina superimposed on a sea of erotic rock formations; Our Trip, animation of photos and paper cuttings from the filmmaker’s excursion to Machu Picchu; and Women I Love, a series of portraits of Hammer’s friends and lovers intertwined with a playful celebration in nature.

The third session dedicated to Barbara Hammer’s short films consists of Bent Time, in which the filmmaker simulates the scientific concept of doubling time; Place Mattes, where the director’s attempts to “touch” nature are blocked by the blueprints of the optical printer; Ponds and Waterfall, where Hammer slows down the movement of water to appreciate its beauty; Pools, which seeks to provide an experiential sense of the body; See What You Hear What You See, which takes up Hammer’s structuralist concerns; and Tourist, about the miniaturization of the wonders of the world that the “tourist gaze” entails.

Additional screenings will be held for Hammer’s films History Lessons, Nitrate Kisses, I was/I am, Tender Fictions, Sanctus, Vital Signs, Endangered, Optic Nerve, Generations, and Dyketactics.

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