Barbara Hammer returns with an evening of rare early work for expanded cinema and video which will give a fuller sense of her work’s range for those who know her most recent films. “In the mid-1970’s I was concerned with the passivity of audiences during film screenings. I was also interested in the manner in which projected light worked on various textures and three dimensional forms. I began to make films for interactive projections which required the audience to move in order to view the image.” Available Space (1978) is projected on an architectural site specific space; Pond and Waterfall (1982) portrays natural water systems and amplifies viewers’ own heartbeats; Sanctus (1990) re-works archival x-ray footage of Dr. James Sibley Watson, and will be projected onto a suspended weather balloon, and others.
Sunday, October 26, 1997
Early Interactive Cinema of Barbara Hammer
San Francisco Art Institute