...Vanessa Haroutunian Abstract This essay describes how the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant came into fruition, created by the pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer and administered through the New York City nonprofit organization Queer|Art. In 2017, Hammer...

...Lynne Sachs Abstract This personal essay articulates filmmaker Lynne Sachs's experiences working with experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Sachs conveys the journey of her relationship with Hammer when they were both artists living in San Francisco in the late 1980s and 1990s and then later...

...Ronald Gregg Abstract Lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer turned from experimental filmmaking to feature-length documentaries in the early 1990s. These late documentaries illustrate her distinct perspective on queer history and affect, which was influenced by 1970s lesbian feminism and queer...

... together a wide range of genders and bodies on-screen, all the while showing profound love and respect for the 1970s feminist legacy. The article takes this new queer work as an invitation and a provocation to reassess Barbara Hammer's short experimental films of the 1970s and the larger cultural-feminist...

...Jennifer Lange Abstract This memoir recounts Barbara Hammer's relationship to the Wexner Center for the Arts and its Film/Video Studio residency program, which supported a number of her films between 1994 and 2018. It offers some personal insight into the evolution of Hammer's final work...

...Mark Street Abstract This personal essay remembers the filmmaker's encounters with Barbara Hammer as teacher, mentor, and friend. It traces the production of So Many Ideas Impossible to Do All (dir. Mark Street and Barbara Hammer, US, 2019), a film that considers Hammer's epistolary relationship...

...Figure 2. Deren's vever overlaid on Barbara Hammer's footage in Vever (for Barbara) (US, 2019) ...

...Figure 1. Barbara Hammer and Florrie Burke at an Aurora Pictures event honoring Hammer's work. Photographer unknown. ...

...Patricia White Abstract This introduction to a dossier of short pieces on Barbara Hammer locates the work of the late filmmaker in the context of feminist film culture and the journal Camera Obscura . It briefly reviews several phases of the artist's career before focusing on the output of the last...

...Figure 1. Barbara Hammer and Rosemary K. J. Davis share a relieved smile after packing up Hammer's archive. ...

... as a poet, an aspect of her career that has been both dismissed and ignored yet that has great relevance to her films. Fifth, it argues for Deren's recognition as a design and fashion icon and theorist. Finally, the article discusses Barbara Hammer's film Maya Deren's Sink (US, 2011), an homage to Deren...

... and Guest in the House; experimental films such as Germaine Dulac’s La Souriunte Mme. Beudet, Joyce Wieland’s Rat Life and Diet in North America and Barbara Hammer’s Double Strength; the works of several West German filmmakers, one of them Cristina Perincioli’s ThePower ofMen...

... Volume Index 183 Tess Takahashi The Legacy of Representation: International Experimental Media Congress; Toronto, 1989 and 2010. No. 81: pp. 137 – 147 Greg Youmans Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer’s Films of the 1970s. No. 81: pp. 101 – 135 doi 10.1215/02705346...