Barbara Hammer Movies

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...

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

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

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

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

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

Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.

On October 11, 2001, in Times Square, New York City, an ad hoc group of artists named Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War silently demonstrated for peace...

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

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

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

The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with...

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

"A 70-year-old lesbian feminist, seeing little change in the society after years of work, sends out her 40-year-old self on a journey taking her...

“Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It” (1998) is a found porn flick: a threesome. Hammer excises the male part, retaining the two...

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

Optical sound!

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...

In California a young woman artist/filmmaker is led by an older female artist through the small pine forests of Mendocino and the hot desert sands of...