Barbara Hammer – The Fearless Frame
Barbara Hammer - The Fearless Frame
Friday 3 February – Sunday 26 February 2012
Tate Modern, London, UK
This major survey of Hammer’s work [at Tate Modern in London] will be launched with the premiere of her new short film, Maya Deren’s Sink 2011, a tribute to Deren’s longstanding influence on the artist. The month-long series also includes screenings of early, rarely seen Super-8 films, an evening of expanded cinema performances in the Turbine Hall, an event in response to Hammer’s work by artist Emily Roysdon, and several events featuring artists and speakers drawn from across Europe and North America, who testify to the powerful creative community Hammer has inspired.
The programme will be punctuated with films by friends, colleagues, and filmmakers whom Hammer considers crucial influences. In addition to Deren, artists include Chick Strand, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Gunvor Nelson, Chris Welsby, Gina Carducci, Cecilia Dougherty, John Greyson, William E Jones, Liz Rosenfeld, Emily Mode, Scott Berry, Kirstin Rossi and more.
Hammer says: ‘As an experimental filmmaker and lesbian feminist, I have advocated that radical content deserves radical form.’ She has fearlessly pursued innovation from her earliest experiments with sexuality and feminist identity in the 1960s and 70s to her stunning perceptual and optical printing experiments during the 80s and the documentaries she continues to make that unearth secret histories and give voice to those traditionally without one. Her films have transformed the screen into an active and experimental field that powerfully brings together images and the bodies they represent.
Curated by Barbara Hammer and Stuart Comer
The Programme of Barbara Hammer - The Fearless Frame
Barbara Hammer: Programme 1: Maya Deren and Me, Friday 3 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 2: Hammer Super 8, Saturday 4 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 3: For An Active Cinema, Sunday 5 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 4: Hammer Expanded, Sunday 5 February 2012 free
Barbara Hammer: Programme 5: Resistance, Thursday 9 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 6: Fragile Light, Friday 10 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 7: Shattering the Mirror Stage, Saturday 11 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 8: Seeing with a Horse’s Eye, Sunday 12 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 9: The Goddess Zeitgeist,Tuesday 14 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 10: Life in the 80s: Struggles in Conservative Times, Wednesday 15 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 11: Hidden Histories, Friday 17 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 12: Barbara Hammer Study Day: Performative Lectures and Dialogues, Saturday 18 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 13: Land and Water, Saturday 18 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 14: Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions, Sunday 19 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 15: The Scopophiliac Audience, Sunday 19 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 16: Breaking the Law: Barbara Hammer and William E Jones, Friday 24 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 17: Emily Roysdon, Saturday 25 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 18: Out in South Africa, Sunday 26 February 2012
Barbara Hammer: Programme 19: For Florrie, Sunday 26 February 2012
About Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer (American, b. 1939) is renowned for creating the earliest and most extensive body of avant-garde films on lesbian life and sexuality. She has made over eighty films and video works over the past forty years. Barbara Hammer won two Teddy Award in February 2011, the prizes in the category for best short film, one for her own Maya Deren’s Sink, which “explores Deren’s concepts of space, time and form through visits and projections filmed in her LA and NY homes” and the other for Generations, which Hammer shares with co-director Gina Carducci. Barbara Hammer’s films has been screened by a number of big international art museums and she is presented in MoMA’s book ‘Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art’. Barbara published her first book titled HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life in 2010.
Related Link
Barbara Hammer’s website
Barbara Hammer’s video stream