Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1985
Original Language:English
Optic Nerve (1985)
Audience Score
16 minJan 1st, 1985
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
DirectorBarbara Hammer
