Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

An experimental film with lesbian themes

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...

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 tape by Barbara Hammer.

The Peruvian Galapagos Islands feature in Hammer’s film Endangered, where Blue-footed Boobies, seals and iguanas are equated with the filmmaker...

Barbara Hammer's first and only multi-channel video installation, that tackles deeply personal subjects of her life.

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

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.

"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...

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

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

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...

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 lesbian/feminist aesthetic proposing the connection between touch and sight to be the basis for a new cinema. The film explores the tactile child...

"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...

Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National...