Vanguarda como margem e margem como vanguarda: um olhar sobre o cinema experimental de barbara hammer

Abstract

This work aims to examine the life and work of Barbara Hammer, an experimental filmmaker and a queer cinema pioneer, who had a strong feminist and lesbian discursive appeal, examining, through film analysis and historiographical information each phase of her five decades of production. The conceptual exploration used in the analysis will start from the recovering of the cinematographic language experimentation from the beginning of cinema as an apparatus, in the Early Cinema, passing through the European avant-garde movements of 1920’s and, finally, the North American experimental cinema context which Barbara Hammer inserts herself.