Barbara Hammer is making a book
Video (1:25): Barbara Hammer on HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life from Barbara Hammer on Vimeo.
In the above video Barbara Hammer presents her latest project: a book about her life as a lesbian filmmaker, which is due to be published next spring (March 2010). The editorial review by Amazon reads:
“HAMMER! is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in the past ten years—HAMMER! includes texts from these periods, new writings, and fully contextualized film stills to create a memoir as innovative and disarming as her work has always been.
Barbara Hammer has made over eighty films and video works over the past forty years. Her experimental films of the 1970s often dealt with taboo subjects such as menstruation, female orgasm, and lesbian sexuality. In the 1980s she used optical printing to explore perception and the fragility of 16mm film life itself. Her documentaries tell the stories of marginalized peoples who have been hidden from history. Her most recent work, A Horse is Not a Metaphor, won the 2009 Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. A retrospective screening of her work will be presented at the Museum of Modern Art (USA) in spring 2010 and will travel to the Reina Sophia in Madrid (Spain) and the Tate Modern in London (UK).”
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Title: HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY (March 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558616128
ISBN-13: 978-1558616127