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From: Ben Cook LUX [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 March 2004 09:33
Subject: LUX SALON/ BARBARA HAMMER/ 30 March 7 for 7.30pm
you are invited to
BARBARA HAMMER'S CLASSIC, SEXY LESBIAN SHORTS
Lux Salon, Tuesday 30 March 2004, 7 for 7.30pm start
Barbara Hammer, whose new personal documentary Resisting Paradise screens in
the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on 29 & 30 March, makes a special
appearance at LUX to introduce a programme of her classic, sexy lesbian
shorts from the 70s and 80s. These sensual films, which foreground the
primacy of lesbian desire, are erotic, explicit and liberating celebrations
of the female body and spirit.
"Hammer's intense productivity places her on the scale of Brakhage or Warhol
as a major force in the independent cinema; Hammer neatly inverts the
patriarchal forces implicitly and often 'invisibly' at work in independent
cinema practice." (Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye)
Full programme includes DYKETACTICS (1974, 4m), MULTIPLE ORGASM (1977, 6m),
DOUBLE STRENGTH (1978, 16m), OUR TRIP (1980, 4m), SYNC TOUCH (1981, 10m) and
NO NO NOOKY T.V. (1987, 12m)
Presented in association with the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, with
thanks to Selina Robertson. Check out the Festival programme at
www.llgff.org and see what you might be missing.
Admission to the LUX SALON is FREE but places are limited so booking is
essential. To book a ticket email <[log in to unmask]>
If you reserve a space but cannot attend, please let us know as it deprives
others of a place.
LUX SALON takes place at LUX, 18 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ.
See directions at http://www.lux.org.uk/directions.html.
Please plan your journey as latecomers disrupt the screening for everyone.
...
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Screening
29 Mar 18:30 NFT 1 & 30 Mar 16:00 NFT 2
Barbara Hammer
RESISTING PARADISE (2003, 80m)
'Can Art exist during a time of war? What are our responsibilities as
artists?' Just two questions the prolific avant-garde director Barbara
Hammer puts to herself whilst at an artists residency in Cassis in 1999,
when war in Kosovo breaks out. Forbidden from helping the refugees, she
decides to make a documentary instead, juxtaposing the lives of painters
Matisse and Bonnard (residents of Cassis) during World War II with those of
several French Resistance fighters. She carefully raises issues of artistic
identity, ways of seeing and personal-political responsibility through
multiple formats such as digital video, 8mm, 9mm, 16mm, glass negatives,
found photos and archival footage. Watching these fascinating interviews
from les grandes dames de la La Résistance you find it impossible not to
examine your own socio-political choices at this present moment in time.
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