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Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Declarations of Identity

Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Declarations of Identity

Superdyke

UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program, and Los Angeles Filmforum present

Barbara Hammer, Superdyke: Declarations of Identity

Saturday, November 17, 2018, 7:30 pm

At the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

New restorations, with Barbara Hammer in person on Nov 9 & 10!

By the very nature of her multifaceted identity, lesbian feminist filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer (b. 1939) has maintained a formal fluidity in her half-century-long practice effectively unparalleled by any living moving image maker. From her first Super 8 experiment, SCHIZY (1968), Hammer gave herself permission to fearlessly follow her instincts. Through her explicit and politically-charged work of the 1970s to her material interactions and printing exercises of the 1980s and continuing with her seamless adoption of analog and digital video, Hammer’s visual lyricism and sensuality dance invariably within each of her over 80 moving image works in a conscious, active (re)writing and (re)defining of a singular cinematic language

Capturing subjects considered verboten—joyous lesbian sensuality, female sexual pleasure, aging, death and dying, menstruation—Hammer boldly confronts normative representations of women and characterizations of gender expression, commanding and claiming space for a refreshingly new aesthetic and sensibility, queer or otherwise, in experimental film that continues to inspire generations of artists across myriad layers of identification. Her inclusion of queer women in works both traditionally documentative and those more performative allowed for not just increased visibility of lesbian culture in their day, but also an invaluable archive of the ever-evolving political and social objectives of communities often rendered invisible.

With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Archive is proud to present five programs of films by Barbara Hammer, nearly all of which will be shown in restored or newly struck prints from the Academy Film Archive.

This program was curated by KJ Relth and Mark Toscano; program notes written by the same.

Special thanks: Florrie Burke; Karl McCool, Electronic Arts Intermix; May Haduong, Academy Film Archive.

Tickets: Advance sale Price: $10.00 at http://emarket.cinema.ucla.edu/ShoppingCenter/Details.aspx?ref=1038

Tickets for Archive events may also be purchased at the box office:
General admission:  $9.00; Seniors:  $8.00; UCLA Alumni Association Members:  $8.00
Non-UCLA students:  $8.00; Filmforum members, UCLA students:  Free (see policy)

For more information: https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2018/barbara-hammer-superdyke www.lafilmforum.org or 323-377-7238.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17  7:30PM

Declarations of Identity

A mix of pseudo-documentary, role-play, and traditional documentation of Hammer’s international audiences combine to create an engaged intervention of queer and feminist testimony in the socially- and politically-charged climate of the 1970s and ‘80s.

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I WAS / I AM

I WAS / I AM

1973, 16mm, b/w, 7 min.

New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

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SISTERS!

SISTERS!

1973, 16mm, color, 8 min.

Restored by BB Optics, Inc. and the Academy Film Archive with support from The Women's Film Preservation Fund.

MENSES

1974, 16mm, color, 4 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation.  Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

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Superdyke

SUPERDYKE

1975, 16mm, color, 18 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation.  Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

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Multiple Orgasm

MULTIPLE ORGASM

1977, 16mm, color, silent, 5.5 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation.  Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

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Audience

AUDIENCE

1983, 16mm, b/w, 32 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation.  Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.