- Field Recording
- Spoken Word
- Informative
If the photograph’s context is explained, fleshed 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 distance, distracting from its acuity?
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 Island, Ja-Dai-Aich, in the Salish Sea.
Thank you to all of those who shared their stories, memories, and voices for the purposes of this project.
In this chapter, you heard the following voices (in order of appearance):
Barbara Hammer
Florrie Burke
Claire Cronia
Judith Lawrence
Scott Watson
Nym Hughes
Andrew Durbin
Rosemary Allenbach
Martha Ross
Derek Anderson
Elaine Savoie
The rocks, plants, trees, wind, and water of Hornby Island Ja-Dai-Aich.
Barbara Hammer and Terry Anderson, through their diary entries and written correspondence, are voiced by Martha Ross.
In this chapter, you hear excerpts from Barbara Hammer’s films X (1974), Double Strength (1978), and Tenderfictions (1996). You also hear excerpts from interviews with Barbara Hammer by Jeu de Palme, The Seventh Art, and Berkeley Art + Design.
Mixing and Mastering by Robert Steenkamer
Thank you to:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Barbara Hammer Estate
Hornby Island Community Archives
Cashmere Radio, Berlin
96.5 CHFR Hornby Island Community Radio
KOW, Berlin
Company Gallery, New York City
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 territory of the K'ómoks First Nation.
New Friend is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
by Bitsy Knox (2024).
