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Audience

3.5(4)198332m1

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.

  • TMDB

    3.5/10

    4 votes

Status
Released
Budget
Box office
Language
English

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSource: MUBI (Frameline)20 Jun 1983

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When was Audience released?
Audience was released on 20 June 1983.
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What is the rating of Audience?
Audience holds a 3.5/10 audience score from 4 votes.
Who directed Audience?
Audience (1983) was directed by Barbara Hammer.
How long is Audience?
Audience runs for 32m.

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