Tribute to Barbara Hammer

Join us for a special evening celebrating the films and life of legendary film/artist Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) who left us too soon last year.

Admission by donation – all funds received will be donated to the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant Fund!

A selection of Barbara’s films from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) collection paired with a recent short by Deborah Stratman ! ((more details posted soon))

PROGRAMME

• Schizy - 1967 - 3 minutes - Super 8mm - silent
• Dyketactics - 1974 - 4 minutes - 16mm
• Menses - 1974 - 4 minutes - 16mm
• X - 1973 - 8 minutes - 16mm
• Optic Nerve - 1985 - 16 minutes - 16mm
• Bent Time - 1984 - 22 minutes -16mm - original score by Pauline Oliveros

Plus:

Vever (for Barbara) - Deborah Stratman - 2019 - 12 minutes - Guatemala/USA - 16mm (*format to be confirmed)

A cross-generational binding of three filmmakers seeking alternative possibilities to the power structures they are inherently part of. Each woman extends her reach to a subject she is outside of. “Vever” grew out of the abandoned film projects of Maya Deren and Barbara Hammer. Shot at the furthest point of a motorcycle trip Hammer took to Guatemala in 1975, and laced through with Deren’s reflections of failure, encounter and initiation in 1950s Haiti.

TRT: 69 minutes

SPECIAL THANKS

• Florrie Burke
• Toronto Media Arts Centre
• Video Data Bank