Menses
Barbara Hammer
Never before had cinemas shown films about the unpleasant aspects of menstruation. Barbara Hammer addresses the subject in a blend of drama and comedy in which a group of young women act out different scenarios. A tongue-in-cheek examination of the notion that menstrual blood is something shocking and disgusting, a female rebellion in dark shades of red.
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
