Barbara Hammer is the most representative figure of contemporary feminist motion picture. She started her carrier as an amateur director in 1968.and has already made more than 80 picture-, and documentary film, most of them are prize-winners of international film festivals. Furthermore, Hammer has made numerous videos, many of which were shown for the Hungarian audience as well- among others, on the occasion of the annual Homo and Lesbian Cultural and Film festival of Budapest.
Ludwig Museum is showing Resisting Paradise, her 2003 film shot. On the one hand, it's a holocaust-documentary film quilted with interviews on Jews, emigrated to, and hid in South France during the Second World War. On the other hand, it's a kind of portray film of Henry Matisse and Bonnard, who lived for painting, creating ideal landscapes and wonderful nudes despite the constant horrors of the war and the flounces, tortures of their families.
Barbara Hammer, who is treated as the Kubrick of documentary film, expanding the question, how can an artist keep on living an intact life when the world is, in fact, boiling around them.
Resisting Paradise (2003, 80minutes, French-American, English language, no subtitle)
Director: Barbara Hammer
Casting, speakers: Bettina Bergo, Rudy Binion, Jacqueline Chambord, Denys Colomb Daunant, Claude Duthuit, germaine Cremiueux…
The film is on English, without subtitle.
