Barbara Hammer & Silas Howard

MAR 03 WED: March 3 2010, 07:00pm; Hammer Conversations

: Silas Howard. © Beckman.; Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer & Silas Howard

Barbara Hammer is known for creating groundbreaking experimental films dealing with issues such as gender roles, lesbian relationships, and coping with aging and family. Hammer is responsible for some of the first lesbian-made films in history, including Dyketactics (1974) and Women I Love (1976). Her memoir, HAMMER! Making Movies out of Sex and Life, available in March, will coincide with a retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Reina Sophia in Madrid, and the Tate Modern in London. Writer, director, and musician Silas Howard co-directed his first feature film, By Hook or by Crook, with Harry Dodge. The indie classic was a 2002 Sundance Film Festival premiere and five-time Best Feature winner. For eight years, Howard toured nationally and internationally with the band Tribe 8 and recorded four full-length albums. He received an MFA in directing at UCLA and teaches in the literature and visual arts departments at UCSD.

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required. Parking is available under the museum for $3 after 6:00p.m.

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Public programs are made possible, in part, by a major gift from Ann and Jerry Moss.

Additional support is provided by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, the Hammer Programs Committee, and Susan and Leonard Nimoy.