It’s the Summer of 1973. Barbara Hammer has had a busy summer, zigzagging across California on her motorcycle. Somewhere along the way, she meets Terry Anderson, an academic with an artistic mind, and a lesbian single mother of two. Together, they embark on an adventure that will lead them to Hornby Island Ja-Dai-Aich in the Salish Sea, with two brilliant 19-year olds, Martha Ross and Rosemary Allenbach. Whilst there, Barbara Hammer takes three rolls of film, documenting a brief moment in time, and all of its charged artistic and romantic energy.
New Friend is a five-part radio documentary exploring the context behind a series of photographs taken by the artist and experimental filmmaker, Barbara Hammer. The photographs were taken over one weekend in August 1973, on Hornby Is...
This show originally aired on Cashmere Radio.
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