Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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,...

color, silent, 8mm film

An experimental film with lesbian themes

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

A film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen...

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...

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...

"Barbara Hammer's Optic Nerve is a powerful personal reflection on family and aging. Hammer employs filmed footage which, through optical printing...

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of...

Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political resistance, was especially fascinating to me....

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

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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...