2020 39th Season Black Maria Film Festival Program
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In Praise of Barbara Hammer<br />
by <strong>Festival</strong> Director, Jane Steuerwald<br />
So much has been said<br />
and written about Barbara<br />
Hammer. She was brave, fierce,<br />
gifted, honest, a role model, a<br />
champion. In the 1970’s she<br />
embraced and celebrated<br />
her lesbian sexuality in both<br />
a personal and historical<br />
<strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is privileged to be<br />
programming a beautiful and<br />
celebratory film which was a<br />
collaboration between Barbara<br />
and filmmaker Lynne Sachs,<br />
“A Month of Single Frames.”<br />
In 1998, Barbara had a onemonth<br />
artist residency in the<br />
context. For the rest of her life<br />
she explored the queer world<br />
and her own life as a lesbian<br />
artist/filmmaker.<br />
This season, the <strong>Black</strong> <strong>Maria</strong><br />
C Scape Duneshack run by<br />
the Provincetown Community<br />
Compact in Cape Cod,<br />
Massachusetts. The shack had<br />
no running water or electricity.<br />
Barbara shot 16mm film with<br />
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