Barbara Ward Will Never Die
Country: USA, Language: English, 3 mins
- Director: Barbara Hammer
- Writer: Barbara Hammer
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Using a hand-held camera, Hammer initially shot on 8 mm stock. Her second film – created in 1968 while the artist was still married (her married name was Barbara Ward) – programmatically shows the desecration of a graveyard. Though only at the beginning of her development as an artist, she already disturbs the peace of the dead, confidently erecting a monument to herself amid them: “Barbara Ward Will Never Die”. The young filmmaker stakes her claim to a place in history.
There was a trailer...but, it has since disappeared.