Barbara Hammer Movies

Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm...

"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...

Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with...

Regarding this film and Cleansed: "These are two of the first films Hammer ever made and two of the last films she made while married to a man. Never...

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

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

“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...

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...

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

A minute-long, partly animated colour video that is a humorous plea for good sex, safely prophylactic though it may be.

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

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...

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

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists...

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

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

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

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...