Barbara Hammer Movies

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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

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

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

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

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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

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

1969, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 7:34 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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 hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.

We, as human beings on a small globe, united by evolutionary structure and biological DNA have a chance to come together through the experience of...

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended...

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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...

"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...

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

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