ASTRODATA. Barbara Jean Hammer, born 15 May 1939, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. RR: AA. Sy Scholfield [copyright] quotes chart data (including time of birth) from birth certificate in hand.
FEATURES: PERSONALIZED PLANETS:
Capricorn MARS (trine Sun; disposits Aries Moon), Taurus MERCURY (conjunct South Node).
PATTERNS: TRIPLE CONJUNCTION (Aries Venus-Saturn & Taurus Mercury), T-SQUARE (Pluto opposite Mars, both square triple conjunction), GRAND EARTH TRINE (Neptune, Mars, Uranus-Sun).
MUTUAL RECEPTION: Capricorn MARS (square) Aries SATURN. UNASPECTED: Aries Moon. SHAPE: LOCMOTIVE (Capricorn Mars leads).
CHINESE SIGN: EARTH RABBIT (aka CAT). NUMEROLOGY: "33" LIFEPATH.
WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY:
Hammer was born in Hollywood, California. She is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles with a Bachelor's degree in psychology. She also holds two Master's degrees from San Francisco State University, one in English literature and one in film. She also took postgraduate classes in the field of digital media.
In her early thirties, Hammer was married and teaching at a community college in Santa Rosa, California. Around this time she came out as a lesbian, after talking with another student in a Feminist group.
Hammer is known for creating groundbreaking experimental films dealing with women's issues such as gender roles, lesbian relationships and coping with aging and family. Hammer is responsible for some of the first lesbian-made films in history, including Dyketactics (1974) and Women I Love (1976).
There have been two "re-makes" or "re-interpretations" of Hammer's film Dyketactics:
Filmography
A Gay Day (1973)
Dyketactics (1974)
Nitrate Kisses (1992)
Tender Fictions (1996)
The Female Closet (1998)
Fucking Different New York (2007) (segment "Villa Serbolloni")
