Barbara Hammer Movies

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

Made with Barbara Klutinis. Shot with an underwater camera exploring the swimming pools of the Hearst Castle, California.

A celebration and collage of lesbians, including footage of the Women's International Day march in SF and joyous dancing from the last night of the...

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...

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

Using the sixth century B.C. lyricist's poetry, a group of women unwrap the papyrus gauze of the lesbian goddess and bring her to life. Made by...

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...

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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

A lesbian/feminist aesthetic proposing the connection between touch and sight to be the basis for a new cinema. The film explores the tactile child...

1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending...

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

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

Optical sound!

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

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

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

Barbara Hammer's first film.

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