"What an amazingly inspirational book, filled with powerful
stories and beautiful images. I truly love and recommend it. Thank
you, Barbara Hammer "--Sadie Benning, artist
"Barbara Hammer's genius is an erotic genius, one rich in
intuitive intelligence. HAMMER reveals a spirit that is at once
youthful and worldly, full of conviction, and often optimistic,
bold, ravenous, and celebratory."--Cecilia Dougherty, artist
"HAMMER is a brilliant and shimmering feast of art and activism.
Barbara's fearless queer intelligence illuminates every
page."--John Greyson, filmmaker
"Now the gift of Hammer's sounds and images is matched by that of
her words. Beautifully designed and illustrated, HAMMER is a
striking book, from its title to its impact."--Patricia White,
author of "Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian
Representability"
"A candid and colorful memoir, HAMMER offers valuable primary
source material and original feminist film theory by a pioneer of
avant-garde American cinema."--Livia Bloom, film curator
"Barbara Hammer is a true cinematic pioneer; her tremendous body of
work continues to inspire audiences and artists alike."--Jenni
Olson, LGBT film historian
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 in spring
2010 and will travel to the Reina Sophia in Madrid and the Tate
Modern in London.
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