David Lynch, London & Edinburgh
Has Lynch really retired? Maybe not, but you get the feeling he has done all he can and he's created a body of work that only gets stronger with age. Even "failures" like Dune are worth revisiting, while triumphs such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man or Mulholland Drive can be watched over and over – with the help of this retrospective. Lynch's influence has seeped into not just cinema but advertising, design and music, where his new disguise as "Lana Del Rey" seems to be working out just fine.
BFI Southbank & Edinburgh Filmhouse, Wed to 11 Mar
Steve Rose
Barbara Hammer, London
"Radical content deserves radical form," says Hammer and, since the late 1960s, the American experimental film-maker has been pushing the boundaries of both film language and sexual politics with a steady succession of works focusing on lesbian identity, both personal and political. The titles...
Has Lynch really retired? Maybe not, but you get the feeling he has done all he can and he's created a body of work that only gets stronger with age. Even "failures" like Dune are worth revisiting, while triumphs such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man or Mulholland Drive can be watched over and over – with the help of this retrospective. Lynch's influence has seeped into not just cinema but advertising, design and music, where his new disguise as "Lana Del Rey" seems to be working out just fine.
BFI Southbank & Edinburgh Filmhouse, Wed to 11 Mar
Steve Rose
Barbara Hammer, London
"Radical content deserves radical form," says Hammer and, since the late 1960s, the American experimental film-maker has been pushing the boundaries of both film language and sexual politics with a steady succession of works focusing on lesbian identity, both personal and political. The titles...
- 1/28/2012
- by Steve Rose, Katrina Dixon
- The Guardian - Film News
Victoria Ellison in the La Weekly on this evening's event: "At 71, four years after a bout with cancer, the avant-garde Queer Cinema pioneer has never been more alive, with a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Modern, and a memoir, Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life. Hammer's visually lush, authentic, raw films (e.g., Multiple Orgasm, 1976) helped make gay women visible in cinema. This sensate force drives her richly poetic and layered films, two of which Hammer will present Monday at Redcat: the West Coast premiere of Generations and the La premiere of A Horse Is Not a Metaphor, a Teddy Award winner at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival."
Viewing (10'30"). Mike Everleth has documentation from Hammer's performance at the British Film Institute in March 2010.
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Viewing (10'30"). Mike Everleth has documentation from Hammer's performance at the British Film Institute in March 2010.
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- 1/24/2011
- MUBI
Jan. 24
8:30 p.m.
Redcat Theater
631 W. 2nd St.
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Redcat
Barbara Hammer will be in attendance to present two of her recent movies: Generations (2010) and A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009). Both films run about a half-hour each.
With a filmmaking career that spans over 40 years, Hammer is a true pioneer of queer cinema and is still going strong making films and recently writing her autobiography Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life.
As an ovarian cancer survivor — or a cancer “thriver” as she likes to call herself — Hammer made A Horse Is Not a Metaphor about her intense chemotherapy treatments. The film is a return to her experimental filmmaking roots and features bold images of herself aligning with the freedom and power of the animal spirit. Her official website describes the film as such:
‘Survivor’ has never seemed to me to be the...
8:30 p.m.
Redcat Theater
631 W. 2nd St.
Los Angeles, CA
Hosted by: Redcat
Barbara Hammer will be in attendance to present two of her recent movies: Generations (2010) and A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009). Both films run about a half-hour each.
With a filmmaking career that spans over 40 years, Hammer is a true pioneer of queer cinema and is still going strong making films and recently writing her autobiography Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life.
As an ovarian cancer survivor — or a cancer “thriver” as she likes to call herself — Hammer made A Horse Is Not a Metaphor about her intense chemotherapy treatments. The film is a return to her experimental filmmaking roots and features bold images of herself aligning with the freedom and power of the animal spirit. Her official website describes the film as such:
‘Survivor’ has never seemed to me to be the...
- 1/21/2011
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
Barbara Hammer's A Horse Is Not a Metaphor "Barbara Hammer: Experimenting in Life and Art" is the title of the West Coast premiere of Barbara Hammer's Generations (2010), co-directed by Gina Carducci, and the Los Angeles premiere of A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2009) at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, at the Redcat in downtown Los Angeles. Barbara Hammer, "renowned for creating the earliest and most extensive body of avant-garde films on lesbian life and sexuality," will attend the screenings. Hammer has made over 80 films in the last 40 years and her book of memoirs Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life was published last spring. Additionally, she was recently given a career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. The 30-minute Generations is described as "a film about the ongoing tradition of personal filmmaking, the last days of Coney Island’s legendary Astroland, and the aging of...
- 12/23/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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