Barbara Hammer Movies

Optical sound!

Hammer used old x-ray footage, rearranged, colored and orchestrated through optical printing, in order to reveal hidden bodily movements and rhythms...

An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments...

The Peruvian Galapagos Islands feature in Hammer’s film Endangered, where Blue-footed Boobies, seals and iguanas are equated with the filmmaker...

"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the...

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...

This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for...

“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...

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased...

PEARL DIVER is about the frustration of communication between two women who try to tell each other "I love you" underwater making humorous a very wet...

Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of...

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...

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

We, as human beings on a small globe, united by evolutionary structure and biological DNA have a chance to come together through the experience of...

Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended...

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

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

An experimental film with lesbian themes

Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old,...

"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...