Barbara Hammer Movies

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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

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

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

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

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

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

"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...

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

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...

Optical sound!

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

“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...

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...

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

B&W and color; silent.

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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...