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OUTFEST 2019 — BARBARA HAMMER

TENDER FICTIONS—the late, great Barbara Hammer’s follow-up to Nitrate Kisses—traces the filmmaker’s evolution from would-be child-star of the fifties to heterosexual “earth mother” of the sixties to the lesbian artist and activist of her last decades.

As part of The Legacy Project—a partnership between OUTFEST and UCLATENDER FICTIONS (1996) will screen this weekend as part of the festival.

TENDER FICTIONS

Sunday, July 21, at noon.

MOCA Grand Avenue

250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

See A. L. Steiner on Hammer.

From top: Barbara Hammer, Tender Fictions; Barbara Hammer, On the Road, Big Sur, California, 1975, 2017, gelatin silver print; Barbara Hammer, Sappho Production Meeting, Los Angeles, 1978; Hammer. Images courtesy and © the artist’s estate.

BARBARA HAMMER

Starting this weekend, the celebrated debut feature as well as the short films of Barbara Hammer will screen in Los Angeles this month and next—a continuation of the ongoing retrospectives devoted to this filmmaking pioneer.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive series BARBARA HAMMER—SUPERDYKE includes five nights of programming, and Hammer’s AFI Fest event will feature a new 16mm print of NITRATE KISSES.

Hammer will make personal appearances during both nights of UCLA’s opening weekend—signing copies of the books Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies, and Truant: Photographs 1970–1979—and she’ll be at the Egyptian for AFI.

BARBARA HAMMER—SUPERDYKE

Friday and Saturday, November 9 and 10.

Saturdays, November 17, December 8, and December 15.

All screenings at 7:30 pm.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

NITRATE KISSES

Sunday, November 11, at 8:15 pm.

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

See Corrine Fitzpatrick on Hammer’s The Art of Dying or (Palliative Art Making in an Age of Anxiety), and Hammer’s exit interview in The New Yorker.

From top: Barbara Hammer, Audience (1981); Hammer, photograph by Susan Wides; Hammer, with camera, from TruantTender Fictions (1998) by Hammer with Florrie Burke, photograph by Joyce Culver; stills from Hammer films (2). Images courtesy Barbara Hammer.