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    Maya Deren’s Sink

    Barbara Hammer 2011 USA Experimental color 28min English Digi Beta
    Maya Deren’s Sink, a tribute to Maya DEREN, the mother of avant-garde American film, evokes her creative spirit through a meditation on the architectural details of her homes. Fragments from DEREN’s films are projected in the spaces where they were originally filmed while a ghosted actor performs a script crafted
    from her writing. This film explores DEREN’s concepts of space, time and form through visits and projections filmed in her LA and NY homes. Light projections in DEREN’s intimate space evoke a former time and space providing entree into the homes of an influential filmmaker we will never know. The film reclaims the spaces that inspired her work in order to share it with audiences. Time and space are collapsed as film locations of the 40’s are re-imagined in the present.

    Director

    Barbara Hammer

    Barbara HAMMER was born on May 15, 1939 in California. She received her BA in psychology from UCLA, and she earned her two MA degrees, one in English literature and one in film, from San Francisco State University. She is the pioneer of American queer cinema and recognized as one of the most influential filmmakers in the world. HAMMER is known for creating experimental films engaging gender issues, and she created many lesbian films in history.

    Barbara Hammer

    • 2016 Evidentiary Bodies
      2011 Maya Deren's Sink
      2010 Generations
      2008 A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
      2006 Lover Other: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
      2003 Resisting Paradise
      2000 History Lessons
      1998 The Female Closet
      1995 Tender Fictions
      1994 Out in South Africa
      1992 Nitrate Kisses
      1987 No No Nooky TV
      1976 Multiple Orgasm
      1976 Women I Love
      1976 Superdyke Meets Madame X
      1974 Dyketactics
      1974 Menses
      1974 Women's Rites, or Truth is the Daughter of Time
      1968 Barbara WARDWill Never Die
      1968 Schizy

    Director／Barbara HAMMER│

    Cinematographer／Erin HARPER, Barbara HAMMER│

    Editor／Stephanie TESTA , BarbaraHAMMER│

    Music／Tavia ITO, Teiji ITO, Haitian music│

    Cast／Bekka LINDSTROM

    Barbara HAMMER│barbarahammer@gmail.com

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