“A Month of Single Frames” will play at Headroom + Vertical Cinema at the University of Iowa with a program of films by/ with/ for Barbara Hammer. This program was curated by Deborah Stratman.
The cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame, yet privately ensconced in secrets. As facts mount, she discovers more about her father than she had hoped to reveal.
“It takes undeniable courage to discover and reveal shocking truths about one’s family,” said Slamdance festival manager Alina Solodnikova.
An evening of poetry at the Court Tree Collective (Brooklyn, NY).
With one poem for each year from 1961 to 2011, the collection began as a half-century marker in Sachs’ life, reflecting on history and memory.
BBC Culture polled film experts around the world for their favourite films directed by women.
When you don’t know what to write, return full circle to what you’ve already written and begin to experiment and play.
NYU’s Cinema Studies Department and Undergraduate Film & TV Department present the 10th Annual Experimental Lecture: Nathaniel Dorsky: Montage and the Human Spirit.
“While editing the film, the words on the screen came to me in a dream. I was really trying to figure out a way to talk to the experience of solitude that Barbara had had, how to be there with her somehow through the time that we would all share together watching her and the film. My text is a confrontation with a somatic cinema that brings us all together in multiple spaces at once.”
Join LUX & Club des Femmes for a weekend of films, introductions, memories, a zine and an exhibition of ephemera and texts to celebrate the lives and work of feminist experimental artists Barbara Hammer and Carolee Schneemann.
