Barbara Hammer Movies

From the platonic cave to post-punk, the tape traces the invisible and visible references to women who love women from prehistory to contemporary...

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent 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...

"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...

In “Vital Signs” (1991), Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite. She tenderly cares for a human...

“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...

"I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College where Stan spoke about his films to the student...

Optical sound!

An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites. Shot on witch's land in Northern...

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

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

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

transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 3:42 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...

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

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

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation where women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a...

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