Los Angeles Filmforum members receive free admission at the box office!
Barbara Hammer will sign copies of Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, Truant: Photographs 1970-1979, and Evidentiary Bodies in the lobby beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Lustrous not only in their shimmering hues but in their ecstatic, deeply emotional, and highly personal narratives, these three works evoke an artist’s active attempts to define herself and self-compose a herstory leaving indelible marks on lesbian feminist cinema in the process.
“X” (1973)
16mm, color, 8 min.
New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Stress Scars and Pleasure Wrinkles (1976)
Video, color, 17 min.
Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix.
Tender Fictions (1995)
16mm, b/w & color, 60 min.
New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Total running time: 85 min.
Watch the conversation with Barbara Hammer and Film Programmer KJ Relth: