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Her feature film Pus$bucket, from the Broadway Musical, enjoyed
a healthy public screening run, including a few near-riots,
and now can be found in the midnight movie sections of Tower
and other video stores nationwide, and has been featured on
an MTV special about bizarre cult films. After Pus$bucket,
Lisa shot several experimental "silent movie", "German
Expressionist" style fairy tale films. These films can
be seen on her first shorts collection: A Night of Marchenfilme
and includes: Blessed Elysium Follies, Beauty and the
Beast, Adieux, Dames, Empire of Ache, Jorinda and Joringel,
and Naughty P.S.A. Her main stories stem from a mix of Grimms
fairy tales and her own dreams.
In 1999, Lisa collaborated with husband Doc Hammer, and partner
Ben Edlund ( The Tick) to create the film Crawley, which won
the silver medal for short films at the 1999 Chicago Underground
Film Festival, and landed the three filmmakers on the cover
of the Hollywood Reporter. She has also contributed to Joanie4Jackie,
a film anthology project run by Miranda July, which featured
Hammer's film Empire of Ache starring Dame Darcy.
Lisa Hammer collaborated further with Dame Darcy on the weekly
television show Turn of the Century, a New York City public
access television show done in a gothic vaudeville style that
lasted from 1996 to 1999. The show featured various New York
personalities, and guests such as Thurston Moore, Tiny Tim
and Courtney Love. It was cited by New York Magazine as "the
best public access show of 1997" and has been syndicated
on stations around the U.S.
2000-2002 Lisa produced films Handtruck Women (Dir. Karen
Kelly), Maldorora and a Little Girl (Dir. Maude Swift) and
Rub (Dir. Doc Hammer.) She also acted in all three films and
dozens of others. She directed and performed in her band Mors
Syphilitica's music video "My Virgin Widows".
From 2003-2004 Lisa created the award-winning cult NYC TV
show "POX" starring the uber-glamorous POX, leader
of an actual cult. She is currently in post-production on
the feature film documenting the cult and the TV show, with
guest stars James Duval (Donnie Darko) and Clayne Crawford
(Roswell, Swimfan).
From 2004- present, Lisa directed the films "Period
Piece" "Ultimate Team Invasion Force" and "Why
Does It Do That?" which are currently making the festival
rounds. "Period Piece" was shown at an underground
womens' film festival in Pakistan, at Ladyfest in the U.S.,
and was included in Lisa's 2005 one woman show in China. Her
film Period Piece is quickly becoming a viral video sweeping
the internet. The story is a remake of a 1970's sex education
filmstrip for mentally handicapped children who are being
shown, very graphically, how to handle their periods when
they come. The film was reenacted by Hammer and her team of
drunk, sick, weirdos and can be seen on her web site along
with films such as: Crawley, Why Does it Do That?, Ultimate
Team Invasion Force, Empire of Ache, The Dance of Death and
others. Episodes of the POX TV show can also be seen on the
site.
In 2006 Lisa wrote and directed a live stage-play version
of Grimms fairy tales called Grimmer than Grimm which quickly
became the hit of Hollywood and enjoyed standing room only
performances. In this production Lisa melded the worlds of
David Lynch's Fire Walk with Me and Grimm's fairy tales by
populating the world of Twin Peaks with Snow White and Hansel
and Gretel, along with a few evil stepmothers, Cinderella
and The Frog Prince, who, when kissed, transformed into an
"Adam Ant-as-Prince Charming" hunk.
Her films have toured the U.S. and the world, screening
at festivals, galleries, clubs, and on TV. Last year's
screenings included: a successful one-woman show in China,
Ladyfest NYC, and a secret womens' film festival in Pakistan,
to mention a few. Past festival and gallery screenings have
included: The New York Underground Film Festival, The Chicago
Underground Film Festival, The Euro Underground Film Festival,
The International Surrealist Film Festival, Palm Springs International
Film and Video Festival, Festival of Darkness, Antimatter
Festival, Kurzfilm Festival, Volcano Festival, Nova Arts Showcase,
The Corcoran Gallery, Here Art Gallery, 911 Media Center,
Apocalypse Now Showcase, The German No Budget Film Festival,
Toronto "Splice This" Festival, Los Angeles Underground
Festival, The Big Miss Moviola Tour, The Masters of Super-8
World Tour , and many more. She has received funding from:
NY Foundation for the Arts,The Media Loft, Experimental Television
Center, Drift Distribution and The Emerson Film Society. She
has been a guest lecturer at New York University and Cooper
Union.
Her next film going into pre-production in 2007 is the Grimms'
fairy tale Sweetheart Roland.
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