USA 1973 | Director, Production, Editor: Barbara Hammer | Colour | 16mm | 8 min | english OV | Lightcone

SISTERS! is a euphoric contemporary document of gay liberation that Hammer signed with her pseudonym Agressa (scratched into the emulsion): “It’s about women taking over the world: women driving trucks, changing Volkswagen engines, and leading the police in new revolutions! It also has footage of women topless, dancing, sweating – with babies on their shoulders! – to the music of the Family of Woman band at the second National Lesbian Conference that took place at UCLA, where Audre Lorde and Kate Millett spoke.” (Barbara Hammer)

USA 1976 | Director: Barbara Hammer | Colour | 16mm | 23 min | english OV | Lightcone

“[…] WOMEN I LOVE continues with the explicitly lesbian perspective from DYKETACTICS. Hammer appropriates the spaces and activities of the household, which heteronormative society assigned to women at the time, as well as the feminine metaphors of flowers and fruit. However, in her determined lesbian gaze, she gives them new meaning. At the same time, she experiments with various cinematic processes and draws an intimate portrait of her loved ones.” (queer-gestreift, Zebra Kino Konstanz)

USA, CAN, UK 1983 | Director: Barbara Hammer | Camera: Frances Reid, Penny Ashbrook, Jeanette Iljohn, Rita Johnson, Barbara Hammer, Norma Jean Sanders | Sound: Elizabeth Stevens, Rebecca Maguire, Eileen McNutty, Lorna Rasmussen, Mary Robinson | b/w | digital | 32 min | english, french OV | Courtesy of the Estate of Barbara Hammer, New York and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

In AUDIENCE, the camera is less essayistic-experimental and decidedly more documentary. Hammer filmed at retrospectives of her work in San Francisco, London, Toronto and Montreal: “[An] invaluable historical archive, providing quick but complex portraits of lesbian scenes in different cities and countries … it also functions as a testament to the power of Hammer herself as a figure in lesbian culture, showing how fully she engages audiences to incite new forms of discourse about representation.” (Marcos Ortega, Experimental Cinema)

USA 2019 | Director: Barbara Hammer, Lynne Sachs | Cinematography: Barbara Hammer | Montage, Production: Lynne Sachs | Colour | DCP | 14 min | english OV | Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

A MONTH IN SINGLE FRAMES: In 1998, while staying in a simple cabin on Cape Cod, Hammer shot footage which she entrusted to filmmaker Lynne Sachs in 2018 – she was already seriously ill with cancer: “While editing the film, the words on the screen came to me in a dream. I was really trying to figure out a way to talk to the experience of solitude that Barbara had had, how to be there with her somehow through the time that we would all share together watching her and the film. My text is a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces at once.” (Lynne Sachs)