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Generations

Forum Expanded Anniversary 2025
© Estate of Barbara Hammer, New York/Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Generations is a film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, hands the camera to Gina Carducci (today Joey Carducci), a young queer filmmaker. Shooting during the last days of the amusement park Astroland at Coney Island, New York, they find that the inevitable fact of ageing echoes in the architecture of the amusement park and in the emulsion of the film medium itself. Editing completely separately both picture and sound, the filmmakers join their films in the middle when they’ve finished, making a true generational and experimental experiment.
by Barbara Hammer (Director), Joey Carducci (Director) USA 2010 English 30'

Crew

Directors Barbara Hammer, Joey Carducci
Cinematography Barbara Hammer, Joey Carducci
Sound Design Barbara Hammer, Joey Carducci

Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer (1939–2019) was a feminist filmmaker and pioneer of queer cinema. She created over 90 moving image works as well as performances, installations, photographs, collages, and drawings. Her films have been shown nine times at the Berlinale: twice in the Panorama as well as in the Forum and five times in the Forum Expanded program. Her films A Horse Is Not a Metaphor (2008), Generations (2010), and Maya Deren’s Sink (2011) received Teddy Awards.

Filmography

1968 Barbara Ward Will Never Die · Schizy 1972 Elegy · Traveling · Marie and Me · A Brakhage Song 1975 Jane Brakhage · Menses · Superdyke · Psychosynthesis · “X” · A Gay Day · Sisters! · Yellow Hammer · Dyketactics · Song of the Klinking Kup · I Was/I Am · Women’s Rites or Turth is the Daugher of Time 1976 Superdyke Meets Madame X; 28 min., with Max Almy · Women I Love · Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles · Moon Goddess; 15 min., with Gloria Churchman 1979 Available Space · Double Strength · Eggs · Haircut · Dream Age · The Great Goddess · Multiple Orgasm · Home · Sappho 1985 Optic Nerve & andere Kurzfilme · Hot Flash · Would You Like To Meet Your Neighbor? A New York Subway Tape · Doll House · Parisian Blinds · Tourist · See What You Hear What You See · Bent Time · Pearl Diver · New York Loft · Stone Circle · Pools; 9 min., with Barbara Klutinis · Sync Touch · Audience · Our Trip · Pond and Waterfall · Arequipa · Machu Piccu · Pictures for Barbara · Bamboo Xerox · The Lesbos Film 1986 Snow Job: The Media Hysteria of Aids 1988 Endangered · Two Bad Daughters · T.V. Tart · History of the World According to a Lesbian · Bedtime Stories, I, II, III · No No Nooky T.V. · Place Mattes 1990 Still Point · Sanctus 1991 Vital Signs · Dr. Watson’s X-Rays 1992 Nitrate Kisses 1995 Tender Fictions 1998 The Female Closet · Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find I · Out in South Africa · Shirley Temple and Me 2000 Devotion, A Film about Ogawa Productions · History Lessons 2001 My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities 2003 Resisting Paradise 2006 Lover Other 2007 Diving Women of Jeju-do 2008 A Horse Is Not A Metaphor 2009 Generations; with Joey Carducci, Forum Expanded 2011 2011 Maya Deren's Sink 2015 Welcome To This House · Lesbian Whale 2018 Evidentiary Bodies

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025

Joey Carducci

Joey Carducci is a filmmaker and curator. His collaboration with Barbara Hammer, Generations (2010), won the Berlinale Teddy Award for Best Short Film.

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025