Hammer! making movies out of life and sex - Hammer, Barbara 1939-2019 (Feminist Press, 2010)
Introduction: I think I've always wanted to live up to my name -- 70s -- Introduction: the 70s were a glorious time of feminist ideals and lesbian bed-hopping -- My life as Henry Miller -- Photos -- Use of time in women's cinema -- Stillness in Motion: a study of relationship and film -- Lesbian filmmaking: self-birthing -- 80s -- Introduction: ever since I became an artist, I had wanted to move to New York City -- International audiences: personal experiences of a filmmaker -- Touching and receiving: a Lesbian aesthetic -- White out -- For an active cinema -- Photos -- Conference Sex (or The names have not been changed as there are no innocents) -- After Gertrude Stein -- Change of location: bodies of flesh to bodies of earth/water -- Lesbian mainstream: economics vs. Radical Play -- Creative-teaching spaces: home movies -- The artist as teacher: problems and experiments -- Some thoughts on institutional support, by a Media Artist -- The invisible screen: Lesbian cinema -- 90s -- Introduction: By the end of the 80s, I was fed up with compromising my filmmaking -- Risk-taking as alternative living/art-making: or, Why I moved to the Big City -- Coming into our fullness: on women turning forty -- The politics of abstraction -- When a kiss is not a kiss but nitrate -- Photos -- Censorship -- 00s -- Introduction: Aging is interesting -- Maya Deren and Me -- Resisting Paradise -- Tender fictions -- Photos -- Wishes -- The ephemeral archive -- The creative process
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index