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SPEAKER_02: This Pride Month, Womanaka is brought to you exclusively by Mercedes-Benz. Together, we're honoring people who've expanded the norms of gender and sexuality in the performing arts. Mercedes-Benz embraces the freedom of individual expression and continues to support and stand with the LGBTQIA plus community. Listen all month long as we share stories of proud individuals whose authentic expression in their lives and bodies of work have challenged norms, driving society forward. Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanaka. Happy Pride Month. This June, we're highlighting queer stars of the stage and screen. Today, we're talking about a prolific director. She created some of the first films to explore lesbian identity and love. Let's talk about Barbara Hammer. Barbara was born on May 15th, 1939 in Hollywood, California. Her mother wanted to see Barbara in front of the camera. She hoped Barbara would become a child star like Shirley Temple, but the family couldn't afford acting lessons. Instead, Barbara studied psychology at UCLA. A day after graduating, she married Clayton Ward. He promised to take her around the world, and they spent a year riding from Italy to Hong Kong on a motor scooter. But Barbara was unhappy as a housewife. After hearing a critique of the Miss America pageant one day on the radio, she declared herself a feminist, much to her husband's annoyance. One of her neighbors told her he thought she was queer. She'd never even heard the word before. Looking for a way to channel her creativity, Barbara took a painting class taught by abstract impressionist William Morehouse. He noticed the sense of movement in her paintings and encouraged her to try filmmaking. In 1968, Barbara made her first film, Skitzy, about her coming out process. It earned an honorable mention at the Sonoma State Super 8 Film Festival. After a year of marriage, she left her husband. She rode away on a motorcycle toward her new life, a Super 8 camera in hand. Barbara then landed in Berkeley. She traveled around the city with a tape recorder and camera and interviewed people in cars, on the sidewalk, and at gay pride festivals. In 1974, Barbara released her breakthrough film, Dyktactikz. Using more than 100 shots in four minutes, it showcased what would become her distinct style of overlapping images. Scenes of nude women in a forest were meant to depict lesbian sex from a lesbian point of view, rather than through the pervasive male gaze. Barbara produced 29 movies over the course of the decade, celebrating lesbian love, women's bodies, and the natural environment. In the 1980s and 90s, Barbara's art turned more political as a reaction to the Reagan administration and the HIV-AIDS epidemic. In 1986, Barbara made Snow Job the media hysteria of AIDS. She released her first feature-length film, Nitrate Kisses, in 1992. It featured interviews with lesbian couples to tell stories otherwise hidden by history.
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SPEAKER_02: I don't know, maybe I wanted a pass for a male. I certainly felt like one. Her 1995 film, Tender Fictions, explored the fine line between fact and fiction in biographies and autobiographies. It featured her partner, human rights activist, Florrie Burke. Barbara and Florrie met at the West Coast Women's Music Festival in 1986. Neither one of them was looking for a serious relationship, until they found each other. Wanting to help young lesbians pursue filmmaking like she had, Barbara sponsored two awards, the Queer Filmmaking Award and the Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant. Barbara was diagnosed with endometrioid ovarian cancer in 2006. Her doctors gave her a grim diagnosis, but it didn't stop Barbara from creating seven more films, publishing an autobiography, traveling around the globe, and showing her work in several museum exhibitions. She chronicled her treatment in her 2008 film, A House Is Not a Metaphor. In 2016, Barbara premiered her final work, Evidentiary Bodies. The multi-channel video installation incorporated footage of her nude body and x-rays of her medical diagnosis, superimposed with a degrading film strip. The piece represented her experience with cancer. Barbara passed away in New York on March 16th, 2019, at 79 years old. She and Florrie had been together for 31 years. All month, we're highlighting queer stars of the stage and screen. For more, check us out on Facebook and Instagram at Wamanica Podcast. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. Talk to you tomorrow.
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