Audience

Audience

Barbara Hammer

US
1982
Short film
33’
OFe
Focus: Common Land

In the early 1980s, Barbara Hammer took a 16mm camera to screenings of her own films in San Francisco, London, Toronto and Montreal, turning her audiences into the protagonists of this film. What were they expecting from a lesbian film? In front of the camera, they appear as a confident community.

»In a time of national borders and increasing geographic chauvinism, I found images of women transcending boundaries and cultures and at the same time acting as spokespeople for cultural difference.« Barbara Hammer

Director

Barbara Hammer

Cinematography

Penny Ashbrook, Barbara Hammer, Jeanette Iljon, Rita Johnson, Frances Reid, Norma Jean Sanders

With

Barbara Hammer, Curt McDowell, Anita Monga, Ulrike Ottinger

Contact

Electronic Arts Intermix

WWW

eai.org

Portrait von Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer

Die feministische Filmemacherin und Pionierin des queeren Kinos, Barbara Hammer (1939–2019), schuf in mehr als vier Dekaden über 90 Film- und Videoarbeiten sowie Performances, Installationen, Fotografien, Collagen und Zeichnungen. Ihr Werk, in dem sie seit Dyketactics (1974) − ihrem ikonischen Super-8-Film − lesbisches Begehren und Leben in den Mittelpunkt rückte, wird weltweit in Kunstinstitutionen und auf Filmfestivals gewürdigt.


Filme von Barbara Hammer (Auswahl)
Welcome to This House 2015 | Maya Deren’s Sink 2011 | A Horse is Not a Metaphor 2009 | The Female Closet 1998 | Tender Fictions 1996 | Nitrate Kisses 1992 | Endangered 1988 | Optic Nerve 1985 | Dyketactics 1974 | A Gay Day 1973