A comedy about a troop of shield-bearing Amazons who take over city institutions before relaxing in the country. "Superdyke" takes women into the streets when Barbara arms of a platoon of vagina warriors with Amazon shields in an attempt to overthrow San Francisco. They march through City Hall, usurp the bus lines, demythologiz the consumer mentality at Macy's (to the recorded astonishment of casual shoppers), and wander through the erotic art museum. Barbara's frenetic handheld lens catches the startled reactions and the glee of the participants. "Superdyke" has a home-movie quality to it, but its committed and loose moments in the playground confirm its comic rationale.
Superdyke, 1975
Transferred 16 mm film
Transferred 16mm film, 4:3, color, sound, 17:32 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP
Text: P. Gregory Springer
Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was born in Hollywood in 1939. Her documentary and experimental films are considered among the earliest and most extensive representations of lesbian identity, love, and sexuality. Accompanying her career as a filmmaker, Hammer has time and again worked with performance and installation. She has participated in group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial in 1993 and the WACK! show at MOCA L.A. and MoMA PS1 in 2007/2008. With film retrospectives at New York’s MoMA in 2010 and the Tate Modern, London, in 2012, the artworlds interest in Hammer's work has recently increased. Hammer has been a teacher for many years, she currently holds a professorship at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee (CH). She lives and works in New York.
Active CinemaInterview
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for Austrian Film Museum, 2018
- Candice Breitz
- Los Carpinteros
- Alice Creischer
- Chto Delat
- Eugenio Dittborn
- Heinrich Dunst
- Barbara Hammer
- Ramon Haze
- Hiwa K
- Renzo Martens
- Chris Martin
- Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
- Henrike Naumann
- Oswald Oberhuber
- Olu Oguibe
- Ahmet Öğüt
- Mario Pfeifer
- Dierk Schmidt
- Tina Schulz
- Michael E. Smith
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Clemens von Wedemeyer
- Tobias Zielony