KGB Bar

A night with:

Barbara Hammer, HAMMER! (Fem Press)
Hilton Als, THE WOMEN (FSG) and THE GROUP (FSG)

BARBARA HAMMER has made over eighty films and video works over the past forty years. Her experimental films of the 1970s often dealt with taboo subjects such as menstruation, female orgasm, and lesbian sexuality. In the 1980s she used optical printing to explore perception and the fragility of 16mm film life itself. Her documentaries tell the stories of marginalized peoples who have been hidden from history. Her most recent work, A Horse is Not a Metaphor, won the 2009 Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. A retrospective screening of her work will be presented at the Museum of Modern Art in spring 2010 and will travel to the Reina Sophia in Madrid and the Tate Modern in London.

HILTON ALS is the theater critic for “The New Yorker” magazine and frequent contributor to “The New Yorker” magazine’s “Talk of the Town” section.

Hilton is a former staff writer for “The Village Voice” and former editor-at-large at “Vibe” magazine, and his work has appeared in “The Nation.” Hilton was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000 for creative writing and is the winner of the 2002-03 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has also written film scripts, “Swoon” and “Looking for Langston” and his first book, “The Women,” was a meditation on gender and race and their roles in the forging of personal identity.