TEDDY AWARD winner Barbara Hammer on queer film making
Channel: TEDDY AWARD
Date: 2015-12-25

"30 Years - 30 Interviews"
Birthday Greetings from Barbara Hammer, USA
In this interview, TEDDY AWARD winner Barbara Hammer talks about her movies "A Horse Is Not A Metaphor" and "Maya Deren's Sink". As one of the most significant queer film artists, she also looks back at queer film history, talks about how personal experiences influenced her films, the importance of experimental techniques in queer film making, and what 'queering the arts' means to her. Most importantly though she spreads a spirit of hope, joy and queer power! 

About the movies
A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR: Filmmaker Barbara Hammer fights ovarian cancer with visions of horseback riding and river swimming in her new experimental film, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor. As a “cancer thriver” rather than “survivor,” Barbara Hammer rides the red hills of Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, the grassy foothills of the Big Horn in Wyoming, and leafy paths in Woodstock, New York, changing illness into recovery.
More info about A Horse Is Not A Metaphor at http://teddyaward.tv/en/archive?a-z=1&select=A&id_film=213

MAYA DEREN'S SINK 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.
More info about Maya Deren's Sink at http://teddyaward.tv/en/archive?a-z=1&select=M&id_film=312

About this clip
This clip is part of a series dedicated to the 30th birthday of the TEDDY AWARD in 2016. The Teddy winners take a look back in queer film history, reflect on the meaning of a queer film prize and talk about the impact that the TEDDY AWARD had on their films as well as on their artistic lives.