Barbara Hammer Movies

An experimental film with lesbian themes

One-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy...

Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.

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...

Three short films. I: The Wet Dream-Questions of seduction, viewer/viewed and personal stories are collaged in this heavily postproduced account of a...

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.

"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...

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

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side...