Barbara Hammer Movies

Hammer used old x-ray footage, rearranged, colored and orchestrated through optical printing, in order to reveal hidden bodily movements and rhythms...

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...

Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and performance. Shot primarily on Super...

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

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

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.

In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in...

color, silent, 8mm film

From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone.

An experimental film with lesbian themes

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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,...

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

B&W and color; silent.

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

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

“Both NEW YORK LOFT and DOLL HOUSE convey a strong sense of resourcefulness, this ‘making something’ out of interiors, specifically...

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

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

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