www.egs.edu Barbara Hammer lesbian artist, experimental filmmaker, director and feminist talking about Resisting Paradise, French resistance,Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard, Creating and directing the movie, asking Can art exist during a time of political crisis and war, experimental documentary, sponsored by harvard University, painters and resisters, the role of males and females, love, hate and war, nazis, fascism, death, World War II, artistic identity, the pleasure of looking, and political responsibility, history as an endless process of discovery and revision, identifying and creating meaning. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2005. Barbara Hammer. Barbara Hammer was born in Hollywood, California. She graduated from University of California at Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s degree in psychology, holds two Master’s degrees from San Francisco State University, one in English literature and one in film, and took postgraduate classes in the field of digital media. In her early thirties, Hammer was married and teaching at a community college in Santa Rosa, California. Around this time she came out as a lesbian, after talking with another student in a Feminist group. Hammer is known for creating groundbreaking experimental films dealing with women’s issues such as gender roles, lesbian relationships and coping with aging and …
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AND THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR (A documentary film on the Righteous among the Nations) Script and Directing: Jacky Barkan. The film And Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbour explores, through personal stories, the opposing dynamics involved in taking life. And saving life. The film describes how love was sustained in the midst of terrible conditions. These are the stories of Stasys Sviderskis, from Lithuania who saved children at a Holiday camp. Ida Lenti from Italy, who saved three brothers, Stanislawa Pikula Kolacz from Poland who saved an entire family. They represent more then 17.000 Righteous among the Nations. Each character depicted in the film, inspires and enlightens us. During the research for this documentary, Jacky Barkan, the Director of the film, discovers that in April 1943, on Transport No. 20, from Maline, in Belgium, to Auschwitz. were also Hanna & Benjamin Blacherman the parents of Jacky Barkan. 231 Jews from Transport No.20, where liberated. Jackys parents were not saved and died in Auschwitz. Robert Maistriau from Belgium, was in the Résistance and took part in the underground operation on Transport No. 20. The ties between Jacky and Robert where discovered during the shooting of the film. A special relation of saver and survivor was developed between the two. Coproduction: The Israeli Film Service, Yad Vashem, The Israel Educational Television. Cameraman: Uri Sharon – Editing: Igal Sokol – Producer: Nira Sherman – Script & Directing: Jacky Barkan Duration …
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