Optic Nerve (1985)

"Barbara Hammer's 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 avant-garde of the American independent cinema." -- John Hanhardt, Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987

Released Jan. 1, 1985 16 min None+

Genres: Short

Keywords: tmdb.aging, tmdb.alzheimer-s-disease, tmdb.senior-citizen, tmdb.grandmother, tmdb.woman-director, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.grandmother + 2 more, imdb.experimental-short, imdb.independent-short

Country: United States
Languages: English