18/06/2026
30 June, doors 7:30 p.m. / start 8 p.m.
corporal interventions
BARBARA HAMMER
Pleasure of Discovery
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 le***an 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 q***r-political interventions.
*Frankenberg, Natascha: Q***re 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 q***r cinema. Language: German
Programme
Vital Signs, 1991, 16 mm (digitised), sound, 10 mins
Arequipa 1981, 16 mm (digitised), without sound, 12 mins
Double Strength, 1978, 16 mm, so
und, 16 mins
Sync Touch, 1981, 16 mm, sound, 12 mins
Place Mattes, 1987, 16mm, without sound, 8 mins
Thanks for the support are to be given to:
Estate of Barbara Hammer, New York
(https://www.instagram.com/barbarahammerestate/)
Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
(https://www.instagram.com/electronicartsintermix/)
Light Cone, Paris
(https://www.instagram.com/lightcone_officiel/)
KOW, Berlin
(https://www.instagram.com/kowberlin/)
Image: Barbara Hammer, Place Mattes, 1987, 16mm, 8 mins, still
©️ All rights reserved by the artist / Courtesy of Light Cone
