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Barbara Hammer
Biography
BARBARA HAMMER is considered a pioneer of lesbian/feminist experimental cinema.
She has made 80 films and videos and received the Frameline Award in 2000 for
making a significant contribution to lesbian cinema. She chooses film/video as
a visual art form to make the invisible, visible. Her work reveals and celebrates
marginalized peoples whose stories have not been told. Her cinema is multi-leveled
and engages an audience viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating
them to make social change.
Her trilogy of documentary film essays on lesbian and gay history has received
numerous awards: Nitrate Kisses (1992), Tender Fictions (1995),
History Lessons, (2000).
Hammer’s most recent work has turned to global issues outside her community
as she has investigated a revolutionary filmmaking “collective” in
Japan in the feature-length documentary, Devotion, A Film About Ogawa Productions,
2000, (Jurors’ Merit Award at the Taiwan International Documentary Film
Festival) and My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities, 2001,
funded by a grant from Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute.
Barbara Hammer was awarded a Fellowship at Harvard University through the Radcliffe
Institute of Advanced Study, 2001-02 to continue her research and edit her latest
film, Resisting Paradise, 2003 which is screening on the Sundance Documentary
Channel 2004-06.
| Recent
Solo Exhibitions |
| 2005 |
Retrospective,
Mar del Plata Int. Film Festival, Argentina
Selected Master Filmmaker, Flaharety Film Seminar, Claremont, California
Judge, Turin Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, Italy |
| 2001 |
Retrospective,
Irish Film Centre, Outlook Film Festival, Dublin
Fire Island Pioneer of Lesbian Cinema Award
Southern Circuit tour with Resisting Paradise
Panelist, Jerome Grants for Film and Video |
| 2002 |
Juror,
Wolgrin Awards, Jerusalem International Film Festival Close-up Award, Frameline
Cinema |
Selected Group Exhibitions (Digital Photography & Film)
| 2000 |
“Picturing
the Modern Amazon,” New Museum of Contemporary Art,
The Charlene Atlas Series, digital photographs. “Friendships in
Arcadia,” Hyde
Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, NY. History Lessons.Ibid, Art In
General, New York. “The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought: Women Avant-Garde
Filmmakers, 1930-2000,” Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y. The Great
Goddess.
|
| 1998 |
“Love’s
Body-Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography”, Suntory
Museum, Osaka, Japan. Tender Fictions. Ibid, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
of Photography, Japan. “Troubling Customs”, Ontario College of Art
& Design, Canada. N.Y. New York Times Wedding Page, digital photograph.
|
| 1997 |
“Home Is
Where The Heart Is”, White Columns, New York City. “Dewar Ads”,
Dye Transfer Photograph. “Unthinkable Tenderness, The Art of Human Rights”,
Art Dept. Gallery, San Francisco State University. New York Times Wedding
Page, digital photograph.
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| Awards |
| 2005 |
Artist in Residence, Electronic
Arts Institute, Alfred University, NY |
| 2001-2 |
Radcliffe Fellowship, Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study,
Cambridge |
| 2001 |
Mayor of Philadelphia
Award for Lifetime Contribution to Lesbian
Film.
Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio, Italy
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Film
Career Tribute, U.S.A. Film Festival, Dallas, Texas
New York State Council on the Arts Film Production Grant |
| 2000
|
Frameline Career
Honor: Significant Contribution to Lesbian/Gay
Film
Creative Capital Grant |
| Permanent
Collections. |
| |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Donnell Public Library, New York, NY
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The National Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium
Nederland Film Archive, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Australia National Film Library, Sydney, Australia
Taiwan National Film Library, Taipei, Taiwan
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-Barbara
Hammer
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