Northwest Film Forum

Barbara Hammer, on tour with her first book HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, presents films from four decades of work in this rare celebration at Northwest Film Forum.  Holland Cotter, writing in the New York Times, said, "The short films by Hammer are accessible, sexually explicit, loaded with attitude and hilarious."  Hammer's most recent film, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, about her survival from ovarian cancer, won the prestigious Teddy Award for Best LGBT Short Film at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.  Films from each decade will be screened and Barbara will read short passages from her new book, which will be for sale after the screening. Come see Hammer before her career retrospectives at MoMA (NY) this fall and at The Tate Modern in winter 2010/11.

 

Program includes: Menses, 1974, 16mm, 4 min; Optic Nerve, 1985, 16mm, 16 min; Still Point, 1989, 16mm, 9 min; Sanctus, 1990, 16mm, 19 min; A Horse Is Not A Metaphor, 2008, Beta-SP, 30 min.