{"id":6866,"date":"2012-01-21T14:39:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T12:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=6866"},"modified":"2015-07-11T12:07:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T10:07:32","slug":"barbara-hammer-the-fearless-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/barbara-hammer-the-fearless-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Hammer &#8211; The Fearless Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>Barbara Hammer - The Fearless Frame<br \/>\nFriday 3 February \u2013 Sunday 26 February 2012<br \/>\nTate Modern, London, UK<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>This major survey of Hammer\u2019s work [at Tate Modern in London] will be launched with the premiere of her new short film, Maya Deren\u2019s Sink 2011, a tribute to Deren\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will be punctuated with films by friends, colleagues, and filmmakers whom <a title=\"Barbara Hammre's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barbarahammer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hammer<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Hammer says: \u2018As an experimental filmmaker and lesbian feminist, I have advocated that radical content deserves radical form.\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Barbara Hammer and Stuart Comer<\/p>\n<p><code>The Programme of Barbara Hammer - The Fearless Frame<\/code><br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 1: Maya Deren and Me, Friday 3 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 2: Hammer Super 8, Saturday 4 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 3: For An Active Cinema, Sunday 5 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 4: Hammer Expanded, Sunday 5 February 2012 free<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 5: Resistance, Thursday 9 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 6: Fragile Light, Friday 10 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 7: Shattering the Mirror Stage, Saturday 11 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 8: Seeing with a Horse\u2019s Eye, Sunday 12 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 9: The Goddess Zeitgeist,Tuesday 14 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 10: Life in the 80s: Struggles in Conservative Times, Wednesday 15 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 11: Hidden Histories, Friday 17 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 12: Barbara Hammer Study Day: Performative Lectures and Dialogues, Saturday 18 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 13: Land and Water, Saturday 18 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 14: Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions, Sunday 19 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 15: The Scopophiliac Audience, Sunday 19 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 16: Breaking the Law: Barbara Hammer and William E Jones, Friday 24 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 17: Emily Roysdon, Saturday 25 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 18: Out in South Africa, Sunday 26 February 2012<br \/>\nBarbara Hammer: Programme 19: For Florrie, Sunday 26 February 2012<\/p>\n<p><code>About Barbara Hammer<\/code><br \/>\nBarbara 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 <em>Maya Deren\u2019s Sink<\/em>, which \u201cexplores Deren\u2019s concepts of space, time and form through visits and projections filmed in her LA and NY homes\u201d and the other for <em>Generations<\/em>, which Hammer shares with co-director Gina Carducci. Barbara Hammer\u2019s films has been screened by a number of big international art museums and she is presented in MoMA\u2019s book \u2018Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art\u2019. Barbara published her first book titled HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><code>Related Link<\/code><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/barbarahammer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Hammer\u2019s website<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Barbara Hammer's video stream\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1017993\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Hammer\u2019s video stream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Hammer &#8211; The Fearless Frame Friday 3 February \u2013 Sunday 26 February 2012 Tate Modern, London, UK This major survey of Hammer\u2019s work [at Tate Modern in London] will be launched with the premiere of her new short film, Maya Deren\u2019s Sink 2011, a tribute to Deren\u2019s longstanding influence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[918],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-6866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-video","tag-barbara-hammer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}