New Friend
New Friend is a 5-part limited series audio documentary that delves into the fascinating story behind photographs taken by the groundbreaking lesbian artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer in August 1973, on Hornby Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, British Columbia.
It's a story of art, archives, single motherhood, long-distance love affairs and liberation across 1000 miles.
Credits:
- Hosted by Bitsy Knox.
- Production, research, script and sound design by Bitsy Knox.
- Mixing and mastering by Robert Steenkamer.
- New Friend was originally aired on Cashmere Radio Berlin and 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio.
- Cover image courtesy of The Estate of Barbara Hammer.
- New Friend is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Thank you to:
- The Estate of Barbara Hammer
- Hornby Island Community Archives
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Cashmere Radio, Berlin
- 96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio
- KOW, Berlin
- Company Gallery, New York City
- Hornby Arts Centre
- Florrie Burke
- Louky Keijsers Koning
- Martha Ross
- Derek Anderson
- Rebecca Dunne
- Emma Walter
- Emily Harrison
- All beings, human and more-than-human, of Hornby Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, and its surrounding waters—where I am a part-time, uninvited guest on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral land of the K'omoks First Nation, the Eitsen, Pentlach, Sasitla and Sahtloot peoples.
New Friend
Latest Episodes
CHAPTER 5 - I THINK THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
It's September 1973. Barbara Hammer and Terry Anderson have parted ways, and are back at their respective schools: Barbara at San Francisco State University, Terry at the University of British Columbia. The vibrations of their Summer tryst – an...
CHAPTER 4 - 1000 MILES
It’s the Summer of 1973. Barbara Hammer has had a busy summer, zigzagging across California on her motorcycle, camping and visiting ex-lovers, lesbian conferences and festivals. Along the way, she meets Terry Anderson, a feverishly intelligent ...
CHAPTER 3 - TOPIA
The 29 photographs that make up Barbara Hammer's 2017 exhibition Truant: Photographs, 1970 – 1979, at Company Gallery in New York City, have often been described as 'utopic', or, in the case of an essay by the artist A.L. Steiner for t...
CHAPTER 2 - ARRIVAL
In late August 1973, the artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer, her lover Terry Anderson and two 'brilliant 19-year olds' arrived on Hornby Island, part of the Gulf Island archipelago of the Salish Sea; and the traditional, ancestral and unceded ...
CHAPTER 1 - THE ARCHIVE
If a photograph is explained, fleshed out beyond its rectangular peripheries, given depth of field, does it become more powerful, or does its poignancy and its romance fade with minor detail, thousands of little lights cast into the distanc...