Treasures from the Yale Film Archive celebrates the life and legacy of pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939-2019) with a special screening of experimental short films she made in the 1970s and 1980s. Selections include her breakthrough film DYKETACTICS (1974), which features more than 100 individual shots in rapid, superimposed succession, as well as a new print of A GAY DAY (1973), preserved through a joint effort of the Academy Film Archive and the Yale Film Study Center. The program will feature an introduction by Ron Gregg, Senior Lecturer in Film at Columbia University. 16mm prints from the Yale Film Archive.
A presentation of the Yale Film Study Center and Films at the Whitney with support from Paul L. Joskow ’70 M.Phil., ’72 Ph.D.