Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

color, silent, 8mm film

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

Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political resistance, was especially fascinating to me....

Lesbian Whale animates early notebooks drawings made by Barbara Hammer between 1969 and 1971, with a voiceover commentary by friends and peers. The...

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

"Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse. We see whimsical references to...

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

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

“Both NEW YORK LOFT and DOLL HOUSE convey a strong sense of resourcefulness, this ‘making something’ out of interiors, specifically...

Film by Barbara Hammer.

“Shot in the Peruvian convent of Santa Catalina, AREQUIPA analogizes the building blocks of film (frames, color and black and white stocks,...

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

A child, two youths, a mother and three crones spin spirals, joining rituals of birth, death and rebirth. Filmed in Mendocino, California, where the...

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

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers...

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

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