attaque[e]r le visible presents

Barbara Hammer

Pleasure of Discovery

30 June

doors 7:30 p.m. / start 8 p.m.

The Pleasure of Discovery film programme is dedicated to the films of Barbara Hammer, with a particular focus on those from the 1980s. While her early 1970s works are committed to social realism and emerged from a “perspective of participation”*, as Natascha Frankenberg describes, her films from the 1980s become significantly more abstract. The focus here shifts to an interest in cinematic material and form. This phase is characterised by fragmentary images, superimpositions, and a playful approach to light, colour, and texture. However, Hammer’s central concern remains the same: the depiction of lesbian desire. She explores how non-normative sexualities and identities can be made visible through abstract, poetic and unfamiliar visual languages. Thus, her films from this period are not only formal experiments, but also queer-political interventions.

*Frankenberg, Natascha: Queere Zeitlichkeiten in dokumentarischen Filmen, Bielefeld 2021, p. 205.

Guest: Natascha Frankenberg

After the screening, there will be a discussion with Natascha Frankenberg, a media studies scolar, curator and specialist in queer cinema. Language: German

Programme

Double Strength, 1978, 16 mm (digitised), sound, 16 mins

Vital Signs, 1991, 16 mm (digitised), sound, 10 mins

Arequipa 1981, 16 mm, without sound, 12 mins

Sync Touch, 1981, 16 mm, sound, 12 mins

Place Mattes, 1987, 16mm, without sound, 8 mins

VENUE:

Raum für drastische Maßnahmen / Oderstr. 34, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain

ENTRY:

Donation

more: www.attaqueerlevisible.com

Image: Barbara Hammer, Place Mattes, 1987, 16mm, 8 mins, still

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