Berlin: Barbara Hammer Has Won Two Teddy Awards

Longtime visionary filmmaker Barbara Hammer, 70, won two Teddy Award in February 2011 – the prizes in the category for best short film, one for her own Maya Deren’s Sink and the other for Generations, which Hammer shares with co-director Gina Carducci.

Brighton: 18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference

18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference. Theme:’Revolting: Bodies, Politics & Genders’, 11-12 February 2011. The Lesbian Lives Conference has been organised by the Women’s Studies Centre at University College Dublin for the past seventeen years and in 2011 it celebrates its 18th birthday in Brighton.

Modern Women – Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art

The landmark publication ‘Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art’, in which the museum now openly discusses gender issues, and how instrumental women have been in advancing the arts to where they are today, is the greatest piece of art news, which I have heard in 2010.

Barbara Hammer is making a book

Barbara Hammer presents her latest project: a book about her life as a lesbian filmmaker, which is due to be published next spring (March 2010). Read the editorial review by Amazon on Feminine Moments queer art blog

Trailers for Queer Films by Barbara Hammer

Dyketactics & Other Films from the 1970’s by Barbara Hammer from Barbara Hammer’s video stream on Vimeo. Nitrate Kisses (1992) by Barbara Hammer. Nitrate Kisses is an essay documentary, which explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,…