Media Maven: Mini-Retrospective with Barbara Hammer
Friday, September 2, 2011 - 19:30
Rice Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Bldg, The Banff Centre
All tickets $15

Explore the work of visual artist, filmmaker, and author Barbara Hammer - whose prolific career spans four decades and includes more than 80 films. 

Hammer is hosting this public event to present a synopsis of her films created over four decades before her upcoming Tate Modern Retrospective in London, UK, in February 2012. She will select films from each decade (1960-2010) of her career, showing her movement from the early body-centered lesbian/feminist work of the '60s and '70s through the landscapes of the '80s, into the identity politics of the '90s, and finally issues of beauty and mortality in 2000 and beyond.   She will also read selections from her new book, HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, a memoire and essay collection replete with dozens of unique photographs published a year ago. The book has won both the Triangle Judy Grahn Award for Nonfiction Writing, and the Lambda Literary Award for Memoire and Autobiography.

Films featured include: 
- Schizy, 1968, color/silent, 4 min. 
- Dyketactics, 1974, color/sound, 4 min. 
- Optic Nerve, 1985, color/sound by Helen Thorington, 16 min. 
- Sanctus, 1990, color/sound by Neil B. Rolnick, 20 min.
- A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, 2008, color/sound by Meredith Monk, 30 min. 

Barbara Hammer will also be faculty for a one-day Media Maven workshop with Film & Media at The Banff Centre on September 3. To find out more or to register for the 1-day workshop, contact the Office of the Registrar. Phone: 1.403.762.6180