Table of Contents
The 70s were a glorious time of feminist ideals and lesbian bed-hopping.
Stillness in Motion: A Study of Relationship and Film
Lesbian Filmmaking: Self-Birthing
Ever since I became an artist, I had wanted to move to New York City.
International Audiences: Personal Experiences of a Filmmaker
Touching and Receiving: A Lesbian Aesthetic
Conference Sex (or The Names Have Not Been Changed as There Are No Innocents)
Change of Location: Bodies of Flesh to Bodies of Earth/ Water
Lesbian Mainstream: Economics Versus Radical Play
Creative-Teaching Spaces: Home Movies
The Artist as Teacher: Problems and Experiments
Some Thoughts on Institutional Support, by a Media Artist
The Invisible Screen: Lesbian Cinema
By the end of the 80s, I was fed up with compromising my filmmaking.
Risk-Taking as Alternative Living/ Art-Making: or, Why I Moved to the Big City
Coming into Our Fullness: On Women Turning Forty
When a Kiss Is Not a Kiss but Nitrate
“Now the gift of Hammer’s sounds and images is matched by that of her words. Beautifully designed and illustrated, HAMMER! is a striking book, from tis title to its impact.”
—Patricia White, author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability
“A candid and colorful memoir, HAMMER!offers valuable primary source material and original feminist film theory by a pioneer of avant-garde American cinema.”
—Livia Bloom, film curator
“Barbara Hammer is a true cinematic pioneer; her tremendous body of work continues to inspire audiences and artists alike.”
—Jenni Olson, LGBT film historian
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:
She is singing to you.
&
For women artists everywhere
May your pleasures in creating be huge;
your path, sound; your fears, vanished;
your successes valued.
Yours is the future I write for.