Barbara Hammer Movies

1969, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

1970, 25:27 min, color, silent, 8mm film on video.

Three short films. I: The Wet Dream-Questions of seduction, viewer/viewed and personal stories are collaged in this heavily postproduced account of a...

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

In California a young woman artist/filmmaker is led by an older female artist through the small pine forests of Mendocino and the hot desert sands of...

Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

A montage of film clips and stills calling all lesbians to come out and celebrate who they are. In a trilogy of experimental documentaries, director...

"Behind my desire to 'activate' the audience is a distaste for sutured, hegemonic cinema. By this, I mean a cinema dominated by both narrative and...

Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.

“Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It” (1998) is a found porn flick: a threesome. Hammer excises the male part, retaining the two...

A film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen...

One-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy...

‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side...

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

Place Mattes explores the space between reaching and touching. Animation and optical printing are used to create travelling mattes for places,...

"A 70-year-old lesbian feminist, seeing little change in the society after years of work, sends out her 40-year-old self on a journey taking her...

On October 11, 2001, in Times Square, New York City, an ad hoc group of artists named Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War silently demonstrated for peace...

Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.