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Contribution To Light, 1968

Super 8mm film on HD video

"These films were made before I had taken a class on filmmaking. Someone gave me a Super 8 camera and I was smitten with what I could do with it, what it could record, the portability and, especially, the intimacy – how film could express who I am in a way I had not found before." — Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Barbara Hammer, Contribution To Light, 1968, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Super 8mm film on HD video, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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Estate of Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer was born in Hollywood in 1939. Her documentaries and experimental films are among the earliest and most comprehensive depictions of lesbian identity, love, and sexuality. For more than five decades, Hammer was an increasingly influential voice of queer feminism, and a chronicler of women's self-empowerment in the U.S. and many other places around the world. Following film retrospectives at New York's MoMA in 2010, Tate Modern, London in 2012, and her first solo exhibitions at KOW beginning in 2011, the art world began to take an interest in Hammer's now historic body of work, which includes performances, installations, and works on paper. Numerous institutional exhibitions and successes followed, and today Hammer is considered one of the greatest examples of politically engaged feminist art. Hammer was a teacher for many years and held a professorship at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee (CH). She passed away in 2019. Since, her work is still ongoingly displayed in major solo exhibitions such as Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? (Skulpturenmuseum Marl 2023), Women I Love (Ratio 3, San Francisco 2022 and Frans Josefs Kai 3, Vienna 2021), tell me there is a lesbian forever (Company Gallery, New York 2021), Sisters! (La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barceola 2020).



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