Featuring circus tricks, hot looks, secret spaces, and cruising of all kinds, DYKETACTICS brings together multiple generations of filmmakers queering the gaze.

Interspersing Barabra Hammer’s 1970s films Dyketactics and Double Strength, two of her powerful short films about making art out of life and sex, we’ll screen two of our favourite films by artists that she inspired and supported. In their films Untitled (Dyketactics Revisited) and Lucid Noon, Sunset Blush, contemporary artists Liz aka Riv Rosenfeld and Alli Logout playfully and differently pay tribute to Hammer’s lesbian classics while expanding her gaze on intersectional queer community and reinventing its sexy aesthetics for the twenty-first century.

With an introduction from Club Des Femmes’ So Mayer and Selina Robertson, join us on a cruise through US queer cinema’s transformative practices that speak to the question: how and where do we make time to dream and desire when the world is burning?

Films:

Dyketactics

Dir Barbara Hammer / 1974 / 4 mins / 16mm on video

Untitled (Dyketactics Revisited)

Dir Riv Rosenfeld / 2005 / 12 mins / Digital

Double Strength

Dir Barbara Hammer / 1978 / 14 mins / 16mm on HD video

Lucid Noon, Sunset Blush

Dir Alli Logout / 2015 / 32 mins / 4K Digital

Club Des Femmes are a queer feminist collective set up by Selina Robertson and Sarah Wood in 2007. We curate film screenings and events around the UK and internationally. Our mission is to offer a freed up space for the re-examination of ideas through art.

Selina Robertson is a curator and researcher. She is an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck and a film programmer at the Independent Cinema Office.

Image Courtesy of the Estate of Barbara Hammer, New York and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.