Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1985
Original Language:English
Optic Nerve (1985)
Audience Score
DirectorBarbara Hammer
16 minJan 1st, 1985
Plot
Barbara Hammers Optic Nerve is a powerful personal reflection on family and aging Hammer employs filmed footage which through optical printing and editing is layered and manipulated to create a compelling meditation on her visit to her grandmother in a nursing home The sense of sight becomes a constantly evolving process of reseeing images retrieved from the past and fused into the eternal present of the projected image Hammer has lent a new voice to the long tradition of personal meditation in the avantgarde of the American independent cinema John Hanhardt Biennial Exhibition Catalogue Whitney Museum of American Art New York 1987
