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Barbara Hammer: A Collaborative Practice

Featuring Lynne Sachs, Deborah Stratman, Mark Street, and Dan Veltri

Artist Residency

Foliage with text overlay to breath again

Throughout her remarkable career, Barbara Hammer developed collaborative relationships with other artists and filmmakers. In the last year of her life, as part of her Wexner Center Artist Residency Award, she invited four filmmakers to take footage from four of her unfinished projects and create new work from it. In this program, those filmmakers come together for the first time to present their films (some still in progress) and discuss their approaches to this unconventional collaboration.

Deborah Stratman’s Vever (for Barbara) (2019, 12 mins.) incorporates footage Hammer filmed in Guatemala during the 1970s. Lynne Sachs’s A Month of Single Frames (2019, 15 mins.) uses footage from Hammer’s residency in Provincetown, MA. Mark Street’s So Many Ideas Impossible To Do All (2019, 12 mins.) uses interviews with Jane Brakhage. A work in progress by Dan Veltri draws from hours of footage that Hammer shot during the 1993 World AIDS Conference for the Deaf. (program approximately 75 mins., DCP).

Please note: $5 special event parking is available for this screening in Ohio Union South Garage. Allow extra time for travel and parking due to tonight’s Bob Dylan concert in Mershon Auditorium.

Foliage with text overlay to breath again

So Many Ideas Impossible To Do All, image courtesy of the artist

Person's shadow cast on shingles

A Month of Single Frames, image courtesy of the artist

drawn design over image of foliage

Vever (for Barbara), image courtesy of the artist

Nature photo with text overlay: I am eager to hear what you think about this idea. With sisterly love, Barbara Hammer

So Many Ideas Impossible To Do All, image courtesy of the artist

Colors on sand

A Month of Single Frames, image courtesy of the artist

Person handing someone a bowl

Vever (for Barbara), image courtesy of the artist

Sand with text overlay: I am here with you in this film.

A Month of Single Frames, image courtesy of the artist

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

SEASON SUPPORT FOR FILM/VIDEO
Rohauer Collection Foundation

EVENT SUPPORT
National Endowment for the Arts

GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Ohio Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation

SUPPORT FOR ARTS ACCESS
Cardinal Health Foundation
Huntington Bank

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Barbara Hammer: A Collaborative Practice