Titles by Barbara Hammer
- "X"
- A Horse Is Not A Metaphor
- Audience
- Available Space
- Bamboo Xerox
- Barbara Ward Will Never Die: Early 8mm and Super 8 Films
- Bedtime Stories I, II, III
- Bent Time
- Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It
- Contribution to Light: Early Super 8 Films
- Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
- Diving Women of Jeju-do
- Double Strength
- Dr. Watson's X-Rays
- Dream Age
- Dyketactics
- Endangered
- Evidentiary Bodies
- Generations
- Haircut
- History Lessons
- I Was/I Am
- Jane Brakhage
- Lesbian Whale
- Lover/Other
- Maya Deren's Sink
- Menses
- Multiple Orgasm
- My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
- Nitrate Kisses
- No No Nooky T.V.
- Optic Nerve
- Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War
- Out in South Africa
- Parisian Blinds
- Place Mattes
- Pond and Waterfall
- Pools
- Psychosynthesis
- Resisting Paradise
- Sanctus
- Sappho
- Save Sex
- Shirley Temple and Me
- Sisters!
- Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS
- Still Point
- Stone Circles
- Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
- Superdyke
- Superdyke Meets Madame X
- Sync Touch
- Tender Fictions
- The Female Closet
- The Great Goddess
- The History of the World According to a Lesbian
- Tourist
- Two Bad Daughters
- Vital Signs
- Welcome to This House
- Women I Love
- Would You Like to Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape
Maya Deren's Sink
Maya Deren's Sink explores Deren's concepts of space, time and form through visits and projections filmed in her Los Angeles and New York homes. The project began after Hammer discovered a sink formerly owned by Deren at Anthology Film Archives and embarked on an homage to the "Mother of American Experimental Cinema."
Hammer re-imagines Deren’s film locations of the 1940s in the present, providing entry into intimate spaces and former times, reclaiming the places that inspired the influential filmmaker. Hammer interweaves the performance of an actor, as well as the voices of the current home owners, Judith Malina, Carolee Schneemann, Ross Lipmann and others. The meditation on space and architecture investigates the relationship between private and public spheres, creating a unique architectural portrait of Deren.
The experimental soundtrack is created from the music of Teiji Ito (Deren's third husband), Tavia Ito, and Teiji’s daughter.
Director of Photography: Erin Harper, Barbara Hammer. Second Camera: K.J. Mohr. Editor: Stephanie Testa, Barbara Hammer. Actor: Bekka Lindstrom, Tavia Ito: Daughter of Teiji Ito, Abby Johannes: Writer, Ross Lipman: Filmmaker, Robert Polito: Writer, Judith Malina: The Living Theatre, John Mhiripiri: Anthology Film Archives, Gail Ryan: Second Wife of Teiji Ito, May Routh: Los Angeles, Jean Reynolds: New York, Carolee Schneemann: Artist, Jerry Tallmer: Village Voice. Alan Wynroth: New York. Sound Design & Mix: Stephanie Testa.
"Lifelines, Handwritten, Operation, Hourglass, Water Music Study, Tenno" Composed & Performed by Teiji Ito. Courtesy of Tzadik Records. "Flute Music" Composed & Performed by Tavia Ito. Courtesy of Tavia Ito. "Haitian Music" Recorded by Maya Deren.
Film Clips: "Meshes of the Afternoon" by Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid. "Ritual in Transfigured Time" by Maya Deren. "At Land" by Maya Deren. "Divine Horsemen" by Maya Deren. "Private Life of a Cat" by Alexander Hammid.
Text: Maya Deren "Film Culture, 39," 1965.
Special Thank You: Sally Berger, Florrie Burke, Carolina Guzman, Catrina Neiman, Andrea Weiss
