Generations
Generations is a film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, hands the camera to Gina Carducci (today Joey Carducci), a young queer filmmaker. Shooting during the last days of the amusement park Astroland at Coney Island, New York, they find that the inevitable fact of ageing echoes in the architecture of the amusement park and in the emulsion of the film medium itself. Editing completely separately both picture and sound, the filmmakers join their films in the middle when they’ve finished, making a true generational and experimental experiment.
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Runtime
30 min -
Country
United States -
Year of Presentation
2025 -
Year of Production
2010 -
Director
Barbara Hammer, Joey Carducci -
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Production Company
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Berlinale Section
Forum Expanded -
Berlinale Category
Short Film -
Teddy Award Winner
Best Short Film
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Arsenal 2
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Biography Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She is a visual artist working primarily in lm and video and has made over 80 works in a career that spans 30 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. Her experimental lms of the 1970s often dealt with taboo subjects such as menstruation, female orgasm and lesbian sexuality. In the ’80s she used optical printing to explore perception and the fragility of 16mm lm life itself. Optic Nerve (1985) and Endangered (1988) were selected for the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennials (’85, ’89), Nitrate Kisses (1992) for the 1993 Whitney Biennial. Her documentaries tell the stories of marginalized peoples who have been hidden from history and are often essay lms that are multi-leveled and engage audiences viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. She lives and works in New York City. Contact: barbarahammer@gmail.com
Filmography Barbara Hammer
1979 Available Space | 1979 Bent Time | 1979 Dream Age | 1986 Snow Job | 1987 No No Nooky T.V. | 1989 Sill Point | 1991 Vital Signs | 1993 Sanctus
Biography Joey Carducci
Joey Carducci is a filmmaker and curator. His collaboration with Barbara Hammer, Generations (2010), won the Berlinale Teddy Award for Best Short Film.