Barbara Hammer Movies

Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian,...

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

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

"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...

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

An experimental film with lesbian themes

In Stone Circles, Hammer really leaves ‘nation’ as well as ‘era’ and creates a film poem on the prehistoric stone cultures of...

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

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

A whirlwind tour of paternal institutions: fatherhood, Lacanian psychoanalysis and bondage.

"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...

Early Barbara Hammer film shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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

"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...

A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.

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

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

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...