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
Barbara Hammer, born in 1939 in Hollywood, USA, lived and worked in New York City as a visual artist and film-maker until she died of cancer in March 2019. Her diverse praxis for the past 40 years has a resonating impact on young artists today. Her work has been shown in major biennials and is included in several permanent collections. She has had major retrospectives in art institutions worldwide and was the author of Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life (Feminist Press 2009).
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
