[Frameworks] Frameworks Digest, Vol 83, Issue 4

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>   1. Fwd: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
>      (Eric Theise)
>   2. Re: Fwd: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
>      (Bruce Cooper)
>   3. Re: Fwd: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
>      (Fred Camper)
>   4. Re: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
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>   5. Jean-Claude Bustros & Caroline Monnet August 24th 2022
>      (lalumi?re collective)
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> From: Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Frameworks] Fwd: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
> Date: August 10, 2022 at 11:10:44 AM PDT
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
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> 
> I hadn't returned to the Bay Area by the time this Barbara Hammer show – photographs mostly, but also films projected digitally – opened but I went a few Saturdays ago and it was a treat. Worth going for the photographs alone but Ratio 3 did the right thing and erected a wall to make their back gallery a good bit more light-tight and the three films projected there look great (the four others are displayed on a pair of wall mounted monitors). One could easily spend an hour or two taking it all in.
> 
> This coming Saturday the 13th is the last day. The gallery's open every day until then from 11a-5p. I took a couple of friends along as a surprise so I RSVPed via Ratio 3's website <https://www.ratio3.org/> and that's probably a good idea.
> 
> In San Francisco's Mission District, across the street from the 24th & Mission BART stop.
> 
> & it was news to me that the neighboring gallery, Et Al., has turned one of their spaces into a mostly art-focused bookstore.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Ratio 3 <gallery at ratio3.org <mailto:gallery at ratio3.org>>
> Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 2:17 PM
> Subject: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
> To: <erictheise at gmail.com <mailto:erictheise at gmail.com>>
> 
> 
>                                             
>  <>
> On the Road, Big Sur, California, 1975, 2017. Silver gelatin print, 8 x 12 inches
> Barbara Hammer : Women I Love
> June 24 – August 13, 2022
> Opening: Friday, June 24, 5 – 8pm
> On view: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm and by appointment
> Schedule a visit <>
> Ratio 3 is pleased to present Women I Love, an exhibition of Barbara Hammer’s early photographs and films. The exhibition, like the film after which it is titled, offers an immersive introduction to the distinctive combination of technical experimentation and earnest intimacy that defined Hammer’s singular vision of lesbian identity and authorship in the 1970s. Featuring artworks made while Hammer was living in San Francisco, Women I Love comprises the most extensive presentation of Hammer’s work on the West Coast to date.
> 
> Hammer’s black and white photographs appear throughout the exhibition, beginning with a selection of vintage silver gelatin prints made by Hammer herself, and continuing with a suite of recently editioned photographs printed from Hammer’s archived negatives. From self-portraits to candid shots of women—alone and in groups—in various states of repose and reverie, each photograph provides a glimpse into Hammer’s evolving life and work. Whether unflinchingly erotic or deliberately obscured by lens flares and double-exposures, Hammer’s photographs are invariably generous. In many regards, these stylistically varied photographs of the artist and her friends and lovers mark the beginning of the iconoclastic course Hammer would chart through subsequent decades.
> 
> While the judicious use of optical effects in her photographs attest to Hammer’s embrace of technical experimentation, her inventive command of her media is most apparent in her moving images captured on 16mm film. A monitor in the second gallery presents two of Hammer’s most iconic short films Dyketactics and Menses (both 1974), in a continuous alternating loop. Accompanied by soundtracks of synthesizers and distorted voices, the films present surreal images of uninhibited women congregating in groups, playfully satirizing womanhood and femininity into scenes that are equally touching and absurd.
> 
> Further into the exhibition, another pair of short films, Multiple Orgasm (1976) and Haircut (1978) demonstrate the breadth and continuous growth of Hammer’s filmmaking practice. Despite being made only years apart, these two silent films are strikingly distinct; where one is overtly erotic and composed of densely overlaid color footage, the other documents a quotidian scene in black and white. Together, the films demonstrate Hammer’s consistently inventive approach to experimentation, and the range of visual styles through which she explored and celebrated the nuances of different kinds of intimacy—from the autoerotic to the subtler acts of nurture.
> 
> The final gallery features three longer films, screened successively in an hour-long sequence; Women I Love and Superdyke, two of Hammer’s most celebrated films, followed by Superdyke Meets Madame X, a collaboration between Hammer and Max Almy. The films and photographs comprising the exhibition highlight Hammer’s singular ability to recognize and capture the nuances of intimacy and sexuality in lesbian relationships and communities. Hammer’s work of the 1970s was pioneering both in its influence on contemporary filmmaking and in its representation of lesbian love and life.
> 
> Barbara Hammer was born in 1939 in Hollywood, CA and died in New York, NY in 2019. Recognized as an influential figure in experimental film, Hammer exhibited extensively throughout her career. Her work has been the subject of film retrospectives at major institutions internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern, and the National Gallery of Art in DC.
> 
> This exhibition is accompanied by a brochure with a commissioned essay by Sandra S. Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ratio 3 thanks the Estate of Barbara Hammer and Company, New York, for their contributions and collaboration in presenting Women I Love.
> 
> For all inquiries, please contact: theo at ratio3.org <mailto:theo at ratio3.org>
>                                             
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Bruce Cooper <brucecooper77 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Fwd: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
> Date: August 10, 2022 at 7:23:03 PM PDT
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <frameworks at film-gallery.org>
> 
> 
> What if Brakhage made a film called "Woman I Love" instead of some dead lesbian.  You wouldn't make the same comments Eric. Get a life and get a girlfriend.. I would like to talk to you sometime. 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 2:12 PM Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com <mailto:erictheise at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I hadn't returned to the Bay Area by the time this Barbara Hammer show – photographs mostly, but also films projected digitally – opened but I went a few Saturdays ago and it was a treat. Worth going for the photographs alone but Ratio 3 did the right thing and erected a wall to make their back gallery a good bit more light-tight and the three films projected there look great (the four others are displayed on a pair of wall mounted monitors). One could easily spend an hour or two taking it all in.
> 
> This coming Saturday the 13th is the last day. The gallery's open every day until then from 11a-5p. I took a couple of friends along as a surprise so I RSVPed via Ratio 3's website <https://www.ratio3.org/> and that's probably a good idea.
> 
> In San Francisco's Mission District, across the street from the 24th & Mission BART stop.
> 
> & it was news to me that the neighboring gallery, Et Al., has turned one of their spaces into a mostly art-focused bookstore.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Ratio 3 <gallery at ratio3.org <mailto:gallery at ratio3.org>>
> Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 2:17 PM
> Subject: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
> To: <erictheise at gmail.com <mailto:erictheise at gmail.com>>
> 
> 
>                                             
>  <>
> On the Road, Big Sur, California, 1975, 2017. Silver gelatin print, 8 x 12 inches
> Barbara Hammer : Women I Love
> June 24 – August 13, 2022
> Opening: Friday, June 24, 5 – 8pm
> On view: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm and by appointment
> Schedule a visit <>
> Ratio 3 is pleased to present Women I Love, an exhibition of Barbara Hammer’s early photographs and films. The exhibition, like the film after which it is titled, offers an immersive introduction to the distinctive combination of technical experimentation and earnest intimacy that defined Hammer’s singular vision of lesbian identity and authorship in the 1970s. Featuring artworks made while Hammer was living in San Francisco, Women I Love comprises the most extensive presentation of Hammer’s work on the West Coast to date.
> 
> Hammer’s black and white photographs appear throughout the exhibition, beginning with a selection of vintage silver gelatin prints made by Hammer herself, and continuing with a suite of recently editioned photographs printed from Hammer’s archived negatives. From self-portraits to candid shots of women—alone and in groups—in various states of repose and reverie, each photograph provides a glimpse into Hammer’s evolving life and work. Whether unflinchingly erotic or deliberately obscured by lens flares and double-exposures, Hammer’s photographs are invariably generous. In many regards, these stylistically varied photographs of the artist and her friends and lovers mark the beginning of the iconoclastic course Hammer would chart through subsequent decades.
> 
> While the judicious use of optical effects in her photographs attest to Hammer’s embrace of technical experimentation, her inventive command of her media is most apparent in her moving images captured on 16mm film. A monitor in the second gallery presents two of Hammer’s most iconic short films Dyketactics and Menses (both 1974), in a continuous alternating loop. Accompanied by soundtracks of synthesizers and distorted voices, the films present surreal images of uninhibited women congregating in groups, playfully satirizing womanhood and femininity into scenes that are equally touching and absurd.
> 
> Further into the exhibition, another pair of short films, Multiple Orgasm (1976) and Haircut (1978) demonstrate the breadth and continuous growth of Hammer’s filmmaking practice. Despite being made only years apart, these two silent films are strikingly distinct; where one is overtly erotic and composed of densely overlaid color footage, the other documents a quotidian scene in black and white. Together, the films demonstrate Hammer’s consistently inventive approach to experimentation, and the range of visual styles through which she explored and celebrated the nuances of different kinds of intimacy—from the autoerotic to the subtler acts of nurture.
> 
> The final gallery features three longer films, screened successively in an hour-long sequence; Women I Love and Superdyke, two of Hammer’s most celebrated films, followed by Superdyke Meets Madame X, a collaboration between Hammer and Max Almy. The films and photographs comprising the exhibition highlight Hammer’s singular ability to recognize and capture the nuances of intimacy and sexuality in lesbian relationships and communities. Hammer’s work of the 1970s was pioneering both in its influence on contemporary filmmaking and in its representation of lesbian love and life.
> 
> Barbara Hammer was born in 1939 in Hollywood, CA and died in New York, NY in 2019. Recognized as an influential figure in experimental film, Hammer exhibited extensively throughout her career. Her work has been the subject of film retrospectives at major institutions internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern, and the National Gallery of Art in DC.
> 
> This exhibition is accompanied by a brochure with a commissioned essay by Sandra S. Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ratio 3 thanks the Estate of Barbara Hammer and Company, New York, for their contributions and collaboration in presenting Women I Love.
> 
> For all inquiries, please contact: theo at ratio3.org <mailto:theo at ratio3.org>
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> From: Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Fwd: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
> Date: August 10, 2022 at 11:52:50 PM PDT
> To: frameworks at film-gallery.org
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> 
> I think I am especially well situated to reply to this. I have been subjected to my very own apparently unmotivated vicious attack from Mr. Cooper on this list. I also am not a big fan of Hammer's work, and have been a lifelong advocate for Brakhage's, which might lend a little extra credibility to my defense of Hammer.
> 
> This kind of unjustified personal attack, with no argument and no evidence, is all too common on the Internet today, and is sadly typical of Trumpism, not to say, of course, that Mr. Cooper is a Trumper, but still. What do we learn from him telling someone to "get a life and get a girlfriend" because he posts an enthusiastic review of an art exhibit? This is offensive in the extreme. Not everyone wants a girlfriend -- or a boyfriend -- and what does this even have to do with anything? The usual meaning of this insult is to allege that the person being attacked has all kinds of personal problems that would be solved by, well, a sexual relationship with a woman. What a load of garbage; what an insult to both women and relationships; what a way to evaluate our fellow humans. 
> 
> To judge by the Hammer images online, they seems to my not very favorably disposed eyes to be reasonably good work, at least interesting, maybe more. I haven't seen the actual work, so I really can't judge it. Has Mr. Cooper?
> 
> As for Mr. Cooper referring to Hammer, whose work has garnered much attention and praise over many years, as "some dead lesbian," that is beyond the pale. Can we all not agree that no one should ever be referred to in that way? His larger comment also makes no sense. I don't know any evidence that Eric would not praise a Brakhage film called "Woman I Love," though that is not a likely Brakhage title; his are usually more indirect. It is also not Hammer's title; hers is "Women I Love." Is Cooper's changing of the title a key to what so bothered him? Personally, I think       it's just fine if a woman -- or a man --wishes to love, with their consent of course, many women.
> 
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
> 
> On 8/10/2022 7:23 PM, Bruce Cooper wrote:
>> What if Brakhage made a film called "Woman I Love" instead of some dead lesbian.  You wouldn't make the same comments Eric. Get a life and get a girlfriend.. I would like to talk to you sometime. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 2:12 PM Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com <mailto:erictheise at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I hadn't returned to the Bay Area by the time this Barbara Hammer show – photographs mostly, but also films projected digitally – opened but I went a few Saturdays ago and it was a treat. Worth going for the photographs alone but Ratio 3 did the right thing and erected a wall to make their back gallery a good bit more light-tight and the three films projected there look great (the four others are displayed on a pair of wall mounted monitors). One could easily spend an hour or two taking it all in.
>> 
>> This coming Saturday the 13th is the last day. The gallery's open every day until then from 11a-5p. I took a couple of friends along as a surprise so I RSVPed via Ratio 3's website <https://www.ratio3.org/> and that's probably a good idea.
>> 
>> In San Francisco's Mission District, across the street from the 24th & Mission BART stop.
>> 
>> & it was news to me that the neighboring gallery, Et Al., has turned one of their spaces into a mostly art-focused bookstore.
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Ratio 3 <gallery at ratio3.org <mailto:gallery at ratio3.org>>
>> Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 2:17 PM
>> Subject: Barbara Hammer: Women I Love opening Friday, June 24
>> To: <erictheise at gmail.com <mailto:erictheise at gmail.com>>
>> 
>> 
>>  
>>  <>
>> On the Road, Big Sur, California, 1975, 2017. Silver gelatin print, 8 x 12 inches
>> Barbara Hammer : Women I Love
>> June 24 – August 13, 2022
>> Opening: Friday, June 24, 5 – 8pm
>> On view: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm and by appointment
>> Schedule a visit <>
>> Ratio 3 is pleased to present Women I Love, an exhibition of Barbara Hammer’s early photographs and films. The exhibition, like the film after which it is titled, offers an immersive introduction to the distinctive combination of technical experimentation and earnest intimacy that defined Hammer’s singular vision of lesbian identity and authorship in the 1970s. Featuring artworks made while Hammer was living in San Francisco, Women I Love comprises the most extensive presentation of Hammer’s work on the West Coast to date.
>> 
>> Hammer’s black and white photographs appear throughout the exhibition, beginning with a selection of vintage silver gelatin prints made by Hammer herself, and continuing with a suite of recently editioned photographs printed from Hammer’s archived negatives. From self-portraits to candid shots of women—alone and in groups—in various states of repose and reverie, each photograph provides a glimpse into Hammer’s evolving life and work. Whether unflinchingly erotic or deliberately obscured by lens flares and double-exposures, Hammer’s photographs are invariably generous. In many regards, these stylistically varied photographs of the artist and her friends and lovers mark the beginning of the iconoclastic course Hammer would chart through subsequent decades.
>> 
>> While the judicious use of optical effects in her photographs attest to Hammer’s embrace of technical experimentation, her inventive command of her media is most apparent in her moving images captured on 16mm film. A monitor in the second gallery presents two of Hammer’s most iconic short films Dyketactics and Menses (both 1974), in a continuous alternating loop. Accompanied by soundtracks of synthesizers and distorted voices, the films present surreal images of uninhibited women congregating in groups, playfully satirizing womanhood and femininity into scenes that are equally touching and absurd.
>> 
>> Further into the exhibition, another pair of short films, Multiple Orgasm (1976) and Haircut (1978) demonstrate the breadth and continuous growth of Hammer’s filmmaking practice. Despite being made only years apart, these two silent films are strikingly distinct; where one is overtly erotic and composed of densely overlaid color footage, the other documents a quotidian scene in black and white. Together, the films demonstrate Hammer’s consistently inventive approach to experimentation, and the range of visual styles through which she explored and celebrated the                                                     nuances of different kinds of intimacy—from the autoerotic to the subtler acts of nurture.
>> 
>> The final gallery features three longer films, screened successively in an hour-long sequence; Women I Love and Superdyke, two of Hammer’s most celebrated films, followed by Superdyke Meets Madame X, a collaboration between Hammer and Max Almy. The films and photographs comprising the exhibition highlight Hammer’s singular ability to recognize and capture the nuances of intimacy and sexuality in lesbian relationships and communities. Hammer’s work of the 1970s was pioneering both in its influence on contemporary filmmaking and in its representation of lesbian love and life.
>> 
>> Barbara Hammer was born in 1939 in Hollywood, CA and died in New York, NY in 2019. Recognized as an influential figure in experimental film, Hammer exhibited extensively throughout her career. Her work has been the subject of film retrospectives at major institutions internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern, and the National Gallery of Art in DC.
>> 
>> This exhibition is accompanied by a brochure with a commissioned essay by Sandra S. Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Ratio 3 thanks the Estate of Barbara Hammer and Company, New York, for their contributions and collaboration in presenting Women I Love.
>> 
>> For all inquiries, please contact: theo at ratio3.org <mailto:theo at ratio3.org>
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> Subject: [Frameworks] Jean-Claude Bustros & Caroline Monnet August 24th 2022
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