Barbara Hammer: Declarations of Identity: Block Museum - Northwestern University
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Barbara Hammer: Declarations of Identity

still from Barbara Hammer's Menses
Cinema
May
24
7 PM

Event Details

Date & Time:

Fri May 24, 2019
7 PM

Location:

The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Audience:

Open to the public

Details:

Our second program dedicated to Barbara Hammer’s pioneering work includes recent Academy Film Archive and Electronic Arts Intermix restorations of Menses (1974), Superdyke (1975) and Audience (1983). Hammer’s overlapping identities as a queer woman, artist and activist coalesce in films that capture feminist and lesbian social movements in public and private, transforming the act of documentation into jubilation. Curated by KJ Relth and Mark Toscano.

In person: UCLA Film & Television Archive programmer and curator KJ Relth

 

I Was/I Am (1973)

16mm, b/w, 7 min.

New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

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.

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.

Multiple Orgasm (1977)

16mm, color, silent, 6 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.

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.

Total running time: 75 min.

 

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu