HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life
by Barbara Hammer
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The first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired generations of queer, feminist and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of the queer aesthetic in the 80s and the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, Hammer's search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in the past 10 years, Hammer! includes text and images from all these periods to create a memoir as innovative and show more disarming as her work on screen has always been. show lessTags
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Barbara Hammer has-made over eighty films and video works, which have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers, and won numerous awards and honors, most recently the 2009 Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for Best Short Film. Her films often deal with taboo subjects such as menstruation, show more female orgasm, and lesbian sexuality. Her documentaries tell the stories of marginalized people who have been hidden from history. A retrospective screening of her work will be presented at the Museum of Modern Art and will travel to the Tate Modern in London. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2010
- People/Characters
- Barbara Hammer
- Epigraph
- "Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about her or his life. Now I think, 'that is what they thought at that time.' An interim report - that is what an autobiography is."
- Doris Lessing - Dedication
- For Florrie
I thrive anywhere near you.
Yours is the smile I cherish, the arms I rush home to;
yours is the intellect I admire, the heart I know so big.
Somewhere in the backyard of my mind a poet sings:
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For women artists everywhere
May your pleasures in creating be huge;
your math, sound; your fears, vanished;
your successes valued.
Yours is the future I write for. - First words
- On my third birthday, I, Barbara Jean Hammer, received a leather basketball from my father, a prized object that for years I couldn't even lift.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I will know where my archive goes and I will be sure to obtain visiting rights.
- Blurbers
- Benning, Sadie; Dougherty, Cecilia; Greyson, John; White, Patricia; Bloom, Livia; Olson, Jenni
Classifications
- Genres
- LGBTQ+, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 791.4302 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions
- LCC
- PN1998.3 .H32 .A3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 2
