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Prismatic Autobiography

Stress Scars and Pleasure Wrinkles
November 10, 2018 - 7:30 pm
In-person: 
filmmaker Barbara Hammer will sign books beginning at 6:30 p.m. and participate in a Q&A after the screening.

Los Angeles Filmforum members receive free admission at the box office!

Barbara Hammer will sign copies of Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, Truant: Photographs 1970-1979, and Evidentiary Bodies in the lobby beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Lustrous not only in their shimmering hues but in their ecstatic, deeply emotional, and highly personal narratives, these three works evoke an artist’s active attempts to define herself and self-compose a herstory leaving indelible marks on lesbian feminist cinema in the process.

“X” (1973)

16mm, color, 8 min.

New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Stress Scars and Pleasure Wrinkles (1976)

Video, color, 17 min.

Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix.

Tender Fictions (1995)

16mm, b/w & color, 60 min.

New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Total running time: 85 min.

Watch the conversation with Barbara Hammer and Film Programmer KJ Relth: