Barbara Hammer Movies

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

"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...

A minute-long, partly animated colour video that is a humorous plea for good sex, safely prophylactic though it may be.

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

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."

Film by Barbara Hammer.

Made with Barbara Klutinis. Shot with an underwater camera exploring the swimming pools of the Hearst Castle, California.

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

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

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

"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...

Optical sound!

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

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

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...

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

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...

An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments...

Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of...