Introduced by KJ Relth and Mark Toscano

“Composed entirely of recently restored films from the Academy Film Archive, this program explores various modes of self-envisionment, a strong, recurring theme throughout Hammer’s art practice. Spanning vérité portraiture, mythological drama, optically printed collage, and even appropriated x-ray footage, these extraordinarily diverse films are linked in their wide-ranging approaches to self-examination and Hammer’s acute awareness of being a body within a world, and within a culture.”—KJ Relth and Mark Toscano

All films directed by Barbara Hammer. Total running time: 82 mins.

Jane Brakhage
1974, 10 mins. 16mm, b/w.
Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

Truth Is the Daughter of Time (Women's Rites)
1975, 8 mins. 16mm, color.
Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

Dream Age
1979, 12 mins. Digital projection, color.

Pictures 4 Barbara
1981, 8 mins. 16mm, color.
Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Optic Nerve
1985, 16 mins. 16mm, color.
Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Still Point
1989, 9 mins. 16mm, b/w & color.
Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Sanctus
1990, 19 mins. 16mm, b/w & color.
Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free for children under 3 and Museum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order tickets online. Click here to purchase $35 series pass(good for one admission to all Barbara Hammer screenings). (Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)