Optic Nerve

Film Maker
Hammer, Barbara
Year
1985
Country
U.S.A.
Language
Format
16mm
Length
16
Genre
experimental, queer
Category
art & artists, film studies, LGBTQ, Work about Women, Work by Women

Of this film Hammer says, “It is about the fragility of both film and life as the sterility of a nursing home is memorized with veils and faded patterns of the past by the filmmaker imagining what her grandmother is seeing.” The film won first prize in several film festivals, was chosen for the 1987 Whitney Museum of Art Biennial and was premiered at the London International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1988.

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