Barbara Hammer. Optic Nerve

Barbara Hammer

Optic Nerve

1985

Not on view

Object number W9469
Department Film

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Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer

American, 1939–2019 9 works online

Around 1970, at age 30, Barbara Hammer came out as both a lesbian and a filmmaker. Over the next 50 years she crafted a generous and defiant body of work of around 100 experimental films that celebrate her life as a lesbian, interrogate death and aging, and advocate for human rights.

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