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Barbara Hammer

Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS

Director Barbara Hammer

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8' - 1986 - Short - Format: Digital file - Dialogue: English
16
Friday October
20:00 KASKcinema Subtitles: No subtitles
Barbara Hammer first heard of AIDS in 1985 while she was teaching at Columbia College in Chicago. She noticed the strange and inflammatory articles appearing in newspapers and asked her students to collect hysterical headlines for her. This marked the beginning of her work on Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS. In this project, she examined the public ignorance, stigmatization, and fundamentally misguided attitudes surrounding the new illness. By creating a snowstorm of newspaper clippings, she aimed to reveal the extent to which the media was producing a “snow job”.

picture: © Courtesy of the Estate of Barbara Hammer, New York and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

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Directors

Barbara Hammer

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Barbara Hammer

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Barbara Hammer

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Dialogue

English

Countries of production

United States of America

Year

1986

Filmography

Barbara Hammer

Evidentiary Bodies (Short, 2018), Welcome to this House (2015), Lesbian Whale (2015), Maya Deren's Sink Short, 2011), Generations (Short, 2010), A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (Short, 2008), Diving Women of Jeju-do (Short, 2007), Lover/Other (Short, 2006), Resisting Paradise (2003), My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities (Short, 2001), History Lessons (2000), Devotion (2000), The Female Closet (1998), Tender Fictions (1995), Out in South Africa (Short, 1994), Shirley Temple and Me (Short, 1993), Save Sex, Video (Short, 1993), Nitrate Kisses (1992), Vital Signs (Short, 1991), Dr. Watson’s X-Rays (Short, 1991), Sanctus (Short, 1990), Still Point (Short, 1989), Endangered (Short, 1988), History of the World According to a Lesbian (Short, 1988), Two Bad Daughters (Short, 1988), Place Mattes (Short, 1987), No No Nooky T.V (Short, 1987), Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of AIDS (Short, 1986), Optic Nerve (Short, 1985), Hot Flash (Short, 1985), Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape (Short, 1985), Parisian Blinds (Short, 1984), Bent Time (Short, 1984), Tourist (Short, 1984), Pearl Diver (Short, 1984), Doll House (Short, 1984), See What You Hear What You See (Short, 1983), Stone Circles (Short, 1983), Audience (Short, 2026), Bamboo Xerox (Short, 1983), New York Loft (Short, 1983), Pond and Waterfall (Short, 1982), Pictures 4 Barbara (Short, 1981), Pools (Short, 1981), Sync Touch (Short, 1981), The Lesbos Film (Short, 1981), Machu Picchu (Short, 1981), Our Trip (Short, 1980), Arequipa (Short, 1980), Available Space (Short, 1979), Dream Age (Short, 1979), Natura Erotica (Short, 1979), Double Strength (Short, 1978), Haircut (Short, 1978), Sappho (Short, 1978), Home (Short, 1978), The Great Goddess (Short, 1977), Multiple Orgasm (Short, 1977), Eggs (Short, 1977), Women I Love (Short, 1975), Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles (Short, 1975), Superdyke Meets Madame X (Short, 1976), Moon Goddess (Short, 1975), Menses (Short, 1974), Dyketactics (Short, 1974), Sisters! (Short, 1974), Jane Brakhage (1974), A Gay Day (Short, 1973), X (Short, 1973), I Was/I Am (Short, 1973), Song of the Klinking Kup (Short, 1972), A Brakhage Song (Short, 1972), Yellow Hammer (Short, 1972), Marie and Me (Short, 1970), Elegy (Short, 1970), Play or 'Yes', 'Yes', 'Yes' (Short, 1970), Traveling (Short, 1970), White Cassandra (Short, 1970), Cleansed II (Short, 1969), Aldebaran Sees (Short, 1969), Clay I Love You II (Short, 1969), Death of a Marriage (Short, 1969), The Baptism (Short, 1968), Contribution to Light (Short, 1968), Barbara Ward Will Never Die (Short, 1968), Schizy (Short, 1968)

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Digital file