Barbara Hammer Movies

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

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

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

A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from...

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

One of the first 3 16 mm films made by Barbara Hammer. The filmmaker changes from a damsel in gown and crown to a leather jacket motorcycle dyke.

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

"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...

Queer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creative fields as they confront fame,...

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

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

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

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

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

color, silent, 8mm film

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

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...

Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National...

"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...