Dyketactics

Barbara Hammer

1974, 4:00 min, b&w and color, sound, 16 mm film on video

"Hammer's films of the '70's are the first made by an openly lesbian American filmmaker to explore lesbian identity, desire and sexuality though avant-garde strategies. Merging the physicality of the female body with that of the film medium, Hammer’s films remain memorable for their pioneering articulation of a lesbian aesthetic.” - Jenni Sorkin, WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution, 2007.

Ode to Life (Minuet In G Major)

Ellen Cantor

1997, 3:11 min, b&w, sound

The Color of Love

Peggy Ahwesh 

1994, 10 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video

Ahwesh subjects an apparently found pornographic film to coloring, optical printing and general fragmentation; the source material threatens to virtually collapse under the beautiful violence of her filmic treatment. What emerges is a portrait at once nostalgic and horrible: the degraded image, locked in symbiotic relation with an image of degradation.

Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

Carolee Schneemann

1966, 11:13 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on HD video

Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a score of randomized encounter on layers of rigged ropes and pulleys. One of two video documents of this early and influential performance, this version is...