Barbara Hammer Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

"Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse. We see whimsical references to...

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...

color, silent, 8mm film

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...

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

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

Barbara Hammer's first film.

Film by Barbara Hammer.

Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

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

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the...

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...

NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga...

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