Generations
Barbara Hammer, Gina Carducci
Seventy-year-old acclaimed director Barbara Hammer hands her camera to Gina Carducci, an aspiring queer filmmaker. The women, each shooting their own footage during the last days of Astroland at Coney Island, find that the inevitable fact of ageing is reflected in the architecture of the amusement park. Separately editing their respective footage, the filmmakers ultimately blend their work, thereby creating a true generational, experimental document.
Barbara Hammer
Feminist filmmaker and pioneer of queer cinema Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) produced over 90 film and video projects as well as performances, installations, photographs, collages and drawings over a period of four decades. Her work – which has focused on lesbian desire and life since her iconic Super 8 film Dyketactics (1974) – has been celebrated globally in art institutions and film festivals.
Films by Barbara Hammer (Selection)
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
