Pleasure, Intimacy and Resistance in Barbara Hammer and Sandra Lahire

Beyond their differences, the cinematic poetics of Barbara Hammer and Sandra Lahire share the same radical question: how do we position the body in the struggles (and care) running through the intimate and the shared? This programme runs alongside the two Aula Xcèntric talks, aimed at the publics of Barbara Hammer (4 November) and the cinema of Sandra Lahire (18 November).

The optical printer, a device consisting of one or more projectors mechanically linked to a camera for copying film or creating special effects, is historically associated with industrial cinema. In experimental cinema, a series of women filmmakers appropriated this traditionally masculine tool to explore its relationship with the body, imagination and memory. This session includes an introductory talk on the use and history of the optical printer in experimental cinema by the researcher Julia Cortegana.