Barbara Hammer Movies

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

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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

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

"I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College where Stan spoke about his films to the student...

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...

1970, 25:27 min, color, silent, 8mm film on video.

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

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

1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending...

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

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

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

"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...

What do construction workers do in their well-earned breaks? How might Angelina Jolie's and Brad Pitt's relationship have ended? And what really...

Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a...

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

“Shot in the Peruvian convent of Santa Catalina, AREQUIPA analogizes the building blocks of film (frames, color and black and white stocks,...

An experimental film with lesbian themes