Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer’s work in San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Montreal in the early 1980s bears none of the distinctive visual flourishes and essayistic form one usually finds in her filmmaking. Today, Audience serves as an invaluable historical archive, providing quick but complex portraits of lesbian scenes in different cities and countries: the San Francisco women are bold and raucous, treating Hammer like a celebrity; the London crowd more reserved and tentative; the Canadians politely critical after initial hesitation. It also functions as a testament to the power of Hammer herself as a figure of lesbian culture, showing how fully she engages audiences to incite new forms of discourse about representation.
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| Directing | Barbara Hammer | Director |
| Production | Barbara Klutinis | Production Assistant |
| Production | Al Gonzales | Production Assistant |
| Production | Mary Rush | Production Assistant |
| Camera | Penny Ashbrook | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Jeanette Iljon | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Frances Reid | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Elizabeth Stevens | Sound |
| Sound | Rebecca Maguire | Sound |
| Sound | Eileen McNutty | Sound |
| Crew | Christina Kennedy | Lighting Camera |
| Production | Carolyn Sands | Production Assistant |
| Production | Renate Duelli Klein | Production Assistant |
| Camera | Rita Johnson | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Lorna Rasmussen | Sound |
| Crew | Nancy Nicol | Lighting Camera |
| Crew | Phyllis Waugh | Lighting Camera |
| Production | Michelle McLean | Production Assistant |
| Production | Jivan Teng | Production Assistant |
| Production | Natalie Edwards | Production Assistant |
| Camera | Barbara Hammer | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Norma Jean Sanders | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Mary Robinson | Sound |
| Production | Ann Pearson | Production Assistant |
| Production | Aimee Leduc | Production Assistant |
| Production | Ginette Bergeron | Production Assistant |
| Production | Suzanne Bouchard | Production Assistant |
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