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Barbara Hammer and Queer|Art: Granting for the Future

Vanessa Haroutunian
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 137–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349455
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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Introduction: Late Hammer

Patricia White
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 84–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349371
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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The Documentaries of Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Creativity, Kinship, and Erotic Pleasure in the Historical Margins

Ronald Gregg
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 105–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349399
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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Hammertime!

Jennifer Lange
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 123–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349427
Published: 01 December 2021
... 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 work to be considered more broadly. Barbara's work ethic...
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Performing Essentialism: Reassessing Barbara Hammer's Films of the 1970s

Greg Youmans
Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 101–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1727473
Published: 01 December 2012
...- mer when they made their queer experimental pornographic < g. cap.>Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, video Community Action Center (US, Burns and Steiner’s list Children of Men of in uences also includes gay male pornographers and under- ground filmmakers, as well...
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AIDS and Gay Cinephilia

Roger Hallas
Camera Obscura (2003) 18 (1 (52)): 85–127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-18-1_52-85
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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The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema: Female Authorship and the Short Film Format

Olivia Khoo
Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (1 (85)): 33–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2408507
Published: 01 May 2014
.... The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema  • 39 Paying particular attention to these questions of the global movement of capital and the reception of queer women’s cinema, White considers how lesbian filmmakers deploy the notion ofthe minor in imaginative and generative ways. While...
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Valencia: The Movie/s : A New Collectivity

Liz Clarke, S. Topiary Landberg
Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 165–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3662075
Published: 01 December 2016
... of the filmmakers, such as Anthony, Dia Felix, and Bug Davidson, cast some or all of the characters as cis men or trans men, and the chapter by Jerry Lee imagines the characters as drag queens. While the lesbian feminist ethos of the 1970s and 1980s often created and coalesced around women-­ only spaces...
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Continuous Weave: Feminist Experimental Filmmaking Genealogies

Sarah Keller
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 89–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349385
Published: 01 December 2021
... tendencies of feminist experimental art and continues the legacy of all three women's art. Cooperative, collaborative, and productively fragmented, it honors the creative lineage of which it is a part. 19. Hammer was an advocate for young filmmakers through specific collaborations, most plainly in her...
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Index Camera Obscura/11-12

Camera Obscura (1984) 4 (3 (12)): 169–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-4-3_12-169
Published: 01 December 1984
..., Mary Ann Gdda: Epistemology as Striptease. Vol. 4, no. 11; pp. 7-27. Horne, Larry and John Ramirez UCLA Gay and Lesbian Media Conference. Vol. 4, no. 11; pp. 121-131. Jacobs, Lea The Political Unconscious. Vol. 4, no. 11; pp. 103-110. Keller, Marjorie Interview. Vol. 4, no. 11...
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Conference Report: Conference on Feminist Film Criticism

Barbara Klinger
Camera Obscura (1981) 3 (1 (7)): 136–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3-1_7-136
Published: 01 May 1981
...; 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 is the Patience of Women...
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Histories of The Watermelon Woman : Reflexivity between Race and Gender

Catherine Zimmer
Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (2 (68)): 41–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2008-002
Published: 01 September 2008
... as a black lesbian filmmaker through an identification 50  •  Camera Obscura with Fae, Dunye is attempting to integrate or reconstitute Cheryl/ Dunye — an identity split by the traditional distinction between actor and director — as Cheryl Dunye. While Cheryl establishes a historical subjectivity...
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Putting Things to the Test: Reconsidering Portrait of Jason

Irene Gustafson
Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (2 (77)): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1301521
Published: 01 September 2011
.... For example, MIX NYC, which bills itself as “the longestrunning lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival in New York City and one of the foremost venues for experimental cinema in the world,” screened the film in 1990 as part of a program organized around black gay representation.30...
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Julia Lesage

Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 219–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7-2-3_20-21-219
Published: 01 December 1989
... psychoanalytic ways to theorize the spectator once again generically as “he.” In a dialectical way, my practical experience as a teacher and media maker has led to an ever greater recognition of diversity in audiences. Participating in the lesbian special section of Jump Cut (winter 1980- 81...
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Conjuring Barbara

Mark Street
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 119–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349413
Published: 01 December 2021
... experimental film Barbara Hammer lesbian filmmakers Jane Brakhage Copyright © 2021 by Camera Obscura Published by Duke University Press 2021 ...
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Children, Art, Sex, Pornography: Jennifer Montgomery's Art for Teachers of Children

Bill Nichols, Gerald Peary
Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 34–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-34
Published: 01 September 1996
.... The film becomes a lesbian combat movie: lessons in how to battle- successfully-the Lacanian Law of the Father in life and in filmmak- ing. (At one point in the film a female Lacanian takes over the voice-over, droning on and on in authoritative theory-speak. Presum- ably, Montgomery is satirizing her...
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Looking Back and Forward: A Conversation about Women Make Movies

Debra Zimmerman, Patricia White
Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 147–155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2016996
Published: 01 May 2013
... and media studies at Swarthmore College, she is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability , the coauthor of The Film Experience , and the coeditor of Critical Visions in Film Theory . Her book on contemporary global women's filmmaking is forthcoming from Duke...
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Why Isn't Michelle Lopez on Judge Judy ? Citizenship and Televisuality in Hima B.'s And I Do Survive

Ani Maitra
Camera Obscura (2010) 25 (2 (74)): 183–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2010-007
Published: 01 September 2010
...Ani Maitra In a conversation with the queer South Asian independent filmmaker and video artist Hima B. and through an analysis of her cinema verité work-in-progress And I Do Survive , this interview-article looks at the relationship between televisual discourse and “citizenship” as a form...
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Ephemeral/Material

Rosemary K. J. Davis
Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (3 (108)): 141–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-9349469
Published: 01 December 2021
... and artists. Barbara's archive—full of documents that capture her humanity and reflect her creative process—fits into the library's mission of making gay, lesbian, and transgender collections accessible for all to use. Treasures abound in her papers: clothes from Superdyke (US, 1975) and Hot Flash (US...
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Camera Obscura Questionnaire on Alternative Film Distribution

Camera Obscura (1979) 1-2 (3-1 (3-4)): 157–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-1-2-3-1_3-4-157
Published: 01 May 1979
... full and part-time for Cambridge Documentary Films. Decision-making tends to be consensual but also reflects the fact that two of us have been working full-time since the beginning. C. We started a distribution company because, as filmmakers, we...
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