Barbara Hammer
Fairy Godmother of Queer Avant-garde Film
Avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer has been making art for more than three decades. Her films of the 1970s, incorporating the lesbian-feminist communities of the Bay Area, are regarded as foundational works of queer and women's filmmaking. Since then she has continued to break ground with her formal and thematic explorations of history, memory, subjectivity, embodiment, and sexuality.
Hammer will present a live performance, involving costumes and film clips from throughout her life as a filmmaker, as well as readings from her memoir, Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life. The book has just appeared from the Feminist Press and is available at Bookshop Santa Cruz as well as online at feministpress.org.
The event is sponsored by Film and Digital Media, Porter College, Kresge College, the Center for Cultural Studies, the Cowell College Chapman Fund, Community Studies, Literature, Stevenson College, College Ten, History of Consciousness, and the Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center.
Free and open to the public. Parking recommended in the Core West Structure or in the Theater Arts parking lot. Please observe posted parking regulations.