24th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: Hammer!
Queer. Feminist. Sex. Three words that really turn me on. You can imagine, then, my delight when I read about this:
Barbara Hammer – queer, feminist film-maker extraordinaire – makes a very special, and very exciting, appearance at this year’s BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and if you get a chance, you really must try and see this. From the BFI website:
Barbara Hammer’s pioneering lesbian art and activism have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde filmmakers and fans. On the occasion of the UK launch of her memoir HAMMER! Making Movies Out of Life and Sex, Hammer visits the LLGFF for a special reading and performance event. Using a treasure trove of archival images, costumes of lesbian fashion past, and clips from her provocative experimental films, many never before seen in London, Hammer will playfully mine four decades of queer life and art. From the bed-hopping and early films of the 1970s, to the development of a queer aesthetics in the 1980s, to the culture wars of the 1990s, and her recent struggle to survive cancer, she will go behind her immaculately crafted, taboo-breaking films to discuss her creative process and her personal experiences as an groundbreaking lesbian artist. KS
For more info, check out the BFI website: http://www.bfi.org.uk/go/llgffavantgarde/
Put a thousand lesbiand in number 10!!
Tell them to kill PM TV!!!