Join Enjoy Contemporary Art Space in Pōneke on Friday 6 October for a one-night screening of seven short works by pioneering queer filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939–2019).
Three screenings will run on the night, each showing all seven films with a short introduction by curator Jess Clifford. These begin at 7pm, 8pm and 9pm.
Films showing include Pools (1981), Sync Touch (1981), Would you like to meet your neighbour? A New York City Subway Tape (1985), Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS (1986), No No Nooky T.V. (1987), Place Mattes (1987), and Save Sex (1993).
Barbara Hammer was born in 1939 in Hollywood, California. She lived and worked in New York until her death in 2019. With a career spanning fifty years, Barbara Hammer is recognised as a pioneer of queer cinema. Working primarily in film and video, Hammer created a groundbreaking body of experimental work that illuminates lesbian histories, lives, and representations. Hammer has stated: “My work makes these invisible bodies and histories visible. As a lesbian artist, I found little existing representation, so I put lesbian life on this blank screen, leaving a cultural record for future generations.”
Header image: courtesy of the Estate of Barbara Hammer, New York, and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
