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Introduction: Late Hammer
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 84–87.
Published: 01 December 2021
...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...
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Barbara Hammer and Queer|Art: Granting for the Future
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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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Thoughts on Making Films with Barbara 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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The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins
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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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Barbara Hammer and Florrie Burke at an Aurora Pictures event honoring Hamme...
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Figure 1. Barbara Hammer and Florrie Burke at an Aurora Pictures event honoring Hammer's work. Photographer unknown.
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Pictured left to right: Barbara Hammer, Vanessa Haroutunian, and Florrie Bu...
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in Barbara Hammer and Queer|Art: Granting for the Future
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 1. Pictured left to right: Barbara Hammer, Vanessa Haroutunian, and Florrie Burke.
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Barbara Hammer joyfully dancing on the “Hollywood Walk of Fame” in her auto...
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in The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 1. Barbara Hammer joyfully dancing on the “Hollywood Walk of Fame” in her autobiographical documentary Tender Fictions (US, 1995).
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Hammer tactilely brings the viewer into the light and textures of Elizabeth...
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in The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 2. Hammer tactilely brings the viewer into the light and textures of Elizabeth Bishop's domestic life in the biographical documentary Welcome to This House (US, 2015).
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Barbara Hammer and Rosemary K. J. Davis share a relieved smile after packin...
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Figure 1. Barbara Hammer and Rosemary K. J. Davis share a relieved smile after packing up Hammer's archive.
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Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer's Films of the 1970s
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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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in Continuous Weave: Feminist Experimental Filmmaking Genealogies
> Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 2. Deren's vever overlaid on Barbara Hammer's footage in Vever (for Barbara) (US, 2019)
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Interview with Florrie Burke
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 145–151.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Figure 1. Barbara Hammer and Florrie Burke at an Aurora Pictures event honoring Hammer's work. Photographer unknown. ...
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Hammertime!
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 123–127.
Published: 01 December 2021
...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...
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Conjuring Barbara
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 119–121.
Published: 01 December 2021
...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...
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Continuous Weave: Feminist Experimental Filmmaking Genealogies
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 89–103.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Figure 2. Deren's vever overlaid on Barbara Hammer's footage in Vever (for Barbara) (US, 2019) ...
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Ephemeral/Material
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 141–143.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Figure 1. Barbara Hammer and Rosemary K. J. Davis share a relieved smile after packing up Hammer's archive. ...
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Race as Technology
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (1 (70)): 177–207.
Published: 01 May 2009
... away from the biological and genetic systems that have historically dominated its definition toward questions of technological agency. In this formulation, race exists as if it were on par with a hammer or a mechanical instrument: denatured from its historical roots, race can then be freely engaged...
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Afterlife and Afterimage: Maya Deren in “Transfigured Time”
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (3 (84)): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2013
... 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...
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Figure 1. Still from So Many Ideas Impossible to Do All (dir. Mark Street and Barbara Hammer, US, 2019)
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Figure 1. Installation view (detail) of Evidentiary Bodies , 2018, from the exhibition Barbara Hammer: In This Body , 1 June–11 August 2019, at the Wexner Center for the Arts
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