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Hall of Mirrors

Sanctus
December 15, 2018 - 7:30 pm

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

Composed entirely of recently restored films from the Academy Film Archive, this program explores various modes of self-envisionment, a strong, recurring theme throughout Hammer’s art practice.  Spanning vérité portraiture, mythological drama, optically printed collage, and even appropriated x-ray footage, these extraordinarily diverse films are linked in their wide-ranging approaches to self-examination and Hammer’s acute awareness of being a body within a world, and within a culture.

Jane Brakhage (1974)

16mm, b/w, 10 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

Truth is the Daughter of Time (Women's Rites) (1975)

16mm, color, 8 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

Dream Age (1979)

16mm, color, 12 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

Pictures 4 Barbara (1981)

16mm, color, 8 min.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Optic Nerve (1985)

16mm, color, 16 min.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Still Point (1989)

16mm, b/w & color, 9 min.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Sanctus (1990)

16mm, b/w & color, 19 min.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Total running time: 82 min.