Barbara Hammer Movies

In “Vital Signs” (1991), Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite. She tenderly cares for a human...

A series of cameo portraits of the filmmaker's friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature.

Early Barbara Hammer film shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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...

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

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

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

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

This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginning to open as one woman searches for...

A child, two youths, a mother and three crones spin spirals, joining rituals of birth, death and rebirth. Filmed in Mendocino, California, where the...

In Tourist, Barbara Hammer depicts a trip to Europe: the flow of images is manipulated with a syncopated rhythm, to alter the perception of places...

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

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

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...

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased...

Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old,...

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

color, silent, 8mm film

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