A Thrilling Barbara Hammer Documentary Puts the ‘Body’ in ‘Body of Work’

Of all the retrospectives and surveys I’ve seen, most have stimulated my eyes and my mind; a few have even involved using my ears. (There’s a reason what’s presented in museums is often called “visual art,” after all.) But the Leslie-Lohman Museum’s 2018 Barbara Hammer retrospective remains a standout because it demanded more of my body than a typical exhibition.  I’m thinking of Hammer’s 1982 film Pond and Waterfall, which mostly depicts