Filmmaker Barbara Hammer to Visit Ohio University
Contact: Jean Cunningham, (740) 593-4181
ATHENS, Ohio (April 5, 2001) -- Barbara Hammer, the award winning, experimental filmmaker will visit the Ohio University Campus to screen her film "Tender Fictions" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, in Scripps Hall's Anderson Auditorium.
The event is sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing of the Department of English.
"Tender Fictions" is a postmodern film that interweaves archival footage with personal documentary. According to reviewer and interviewer, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, "At once sexy, erotic and confrontational, Hammer's work(s) operate at the margins between truth and fiction, memory and history, opening up a web of discourse for a new conceptualization of lesbian auto/biography."
Barbara Hammer explains in her interview with Foster that:
"Traditional cinema uses a storyline of ever changing events to keep audience interest. This is boring because it is so programmed and predictable. Experimental cinema presents film in a new and changing light either throughcontent, formal concerns, or exhibition practices... That's why I like to watch it and why I like to make it."
Barbara Hammer has produced and directed fifty-one films and twenty-seven videos. Her second documentary feature, "Tender Fictions" premiered at the Sundance '96 Film Festival and was awarded the Isabella Lidell Art Award at the 1996 Ann Arbor Film Festival.
This event is free and open to the public. A question and answer session will follow.
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