“No penis between us” in Hammer film
“We couldn’t really decide on costumes, so we decided to do it in the nude,” Barbara Hammer said jokingly of her short film “Double Strength,” shown on Monday night at a screening of eight of Hammer’s short films hosted by LGBT Studies. “Double Strength” is a lyrical exploration through photograph and nude trapeze performance of Hammer’s relationship with Terry Sendgraf, an artist and ex-lover. Nudity, of course, is actually integral to the meaning of the film, and is central to Hammer’s queer aesthetic. Hammer complained that in the culture of mainstream film, “We do not celebrate...
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