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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 89–103.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Stratman Maya Deren women and experimental film women's art and legacies The title of Deborah Stratman's 2019 Vever (for Barbara) announces the film's homage to the work of two experimental filmmakers and predecessors: Maya Deren and Barbara Hammer. The vever of the title refers to a drawn...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 137–139.
Published: 01 December 2021
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 129–135.
Published: 01 December 2021
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
Published: 01 December 2021
...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...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 84–87.
Published: 01 December 2021
... decade of the filmmaker's life. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Hammer made work dealing with her body; gave footage she shot over the years to several filmmakers to finish as they wished; set up a grant for lesbian experimental filmmakers; and collaborated with curators, archivists, and her partner...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 29–61.
Published: 01 September 2017
... women filmmakers interracial porn experimental film alternative pornographies Figure 1. Production still from Honey Bunny (2008). © VIVID Entertainment LLC. Photo by WinkyTiki Selling a Rebellion: The Industrial Logic of Mainstream Alt-Porn­ Jennifer Moorman On 13 November...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Lucy Fischer More than fifty years after the death of experimental filmmaker Maya Deren on 13 October 1961, this essay attempts to grapple with her complex legacy. While numerous scholars have already provided in-depth studies of Deren's films, writings, and biography, this article seeks to take...
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Camera Obscura (2019) 34 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., a precursor to the aesthetic and critical trend of Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaking. Despite Zhang s various pioneering roles and achievements, film scholars and critics since the 1990s have seldom credited her with significantly influenc- ing post-Mao experimental cinema. Furthermore, since the end...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 118–133.
Published: 01 September 1995
... frustrated by it 123 and don’t identify at all with the history of experimental film. Some- times I even resent being called an experimental filmmaker because I don’t like to be in a ghetto. Of course, experimental filmmakers always seem to be trying to get out of that ghetto and still maintain...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 81–101.
Published: 01 May 2023
... documenting what artists were doing in their studio or in the gallery. The productive tension between documentation and documentary film generates new meaning for the work of reproduction that experimental, underground filmmaking carried out. This kind of reproductive labor cared for the work of others...
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Camera Obscura (2022) 37 (3 (111)): 31–57.
Published: 01 December 2022
... Chick Strand was years ahead of her time,” asserted Canyon Cinema Foundation in a recent social media post about the 2015 retrospective of the filmmaker at the Tate Modern. 1 Highlighting the contemporary feel of Strand's experimental ethnographic films mostly dating back to the seventies...
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Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 85–127.
Published: 01 May 2003
... with a veritable excess of the visual. The screen is divided into four equal parts, suggesting both a wall of video monitors and also Warhol’s famed simultaneous projections. Hoolboom, a Toronto-based experimental filmmaker who has been HIV posi- tive since 1988, appears in the top right-hand frame...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 123–127.
Published: 01 December 2021
... intimate images of her own sexual pleasure would also share her experience facing terminal cancer and death. Barbara is often thought of as a pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker, which, of course, she was. The exhibition at the Wex offered a different side to her practice that I hope will allow her...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 153–163.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... In another vein, Kunuk’s Aqtuqsi (My Nightmare, Canada, 1996) deploys a surrealist mode of experimental filmmaking — combining stop-­motion ani- mation and black-­and-­white photography — in depicting the story of a young girl’s dream. The scenes set in the waking world are shot in black and white...
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Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 5–13.
Published: 01 May 1979
... was very important to us because, in the United States, she had been very highly touted as a feminist filmmaker, both by the commercial press and by many fem- inists. We were forced to clarify our ideas in trying to say how we thought she was not making feminist films. Also, her...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 40–52.
Published: 01 December 1989
... College; she is an experimental filmmaker; and she is one of the programmers for the internationally acclaimed Toronto Festival of Festivals. Armatage notes in her letter: 44 I see the theorization of the issue as decidedly international, but the ap- plication of the theory...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (3 (87)): 65–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
... aesthetic a cinematic exploration of écriture féminine . While studying the film's experimental cinematography, its carefully thought-out costume and set design, and its deliberately naive acting style, we find particularly noteworthy the filmmakers' employment of color. Fruit 's chromatic experimentation...
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Camera Obscura (1976) 1 (1 (1)): 128–139.
Published: 01 May 1976
..., founded the Hamburg Film Co-op (no longer in existence), an attempt at independent distribution modelled on the American film co-ops. She is one of the remaining major figures of German experimental filmmaking: many of her generation have gone into political work and are no longer making films. Though...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
Published: 01 December 2012
... 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...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (2 (107)): 145–149.
Published: 01 September 2021
... reenactment of the highly gendered role that the filmmaker Stan Brakhage cast Schneemann to play in his short experimental film Cat's Cradle (1959). It considers the way she understood home and homeland as two interlocking fronts in the ongoing battle over how gender is encoded and enacted. It concludes...
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