Barbara Hammer
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Barbara Hammer is a lesbian filmmaker in the genre of experimental films. She was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles with a Bachelor's degree in psychology. Hammer also holds two Master's degrees from San Francisco State University, one in English literature and one in film. She also took postgraduate classes in the field of digital media.
In her early thirties, Hammer was married and teaching at a community college in Santa Rosa, California. Around this time she came out as a lesbian, after talking with another student in a Women's Lib group.
Hammer is known for creating groundbreaking experimental films dealing with women's issues on gender roles, lesbian relationships and coping with aging and family. Hammer is responsible for some of the first lesbian-made films in history, including Dyketactics (1974) and Women I Love (1976).
There have been two "re-makes" or "Re- Interpretations" of Hammer's seminal film Dyketactics:
- Untitled ( Dyketatics Revisited) By Liz Rosenfeld, 2005
- Fagtactics By Scott Berry, 2002
[edit] References
- Alexandra Juhasz, editor (2001). Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video. University of Minnesota Press.
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