Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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...

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

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

"The sub-personalities of me, as baby, athlete, witch and artist are synthesized in this film of superimpositions, intensities, and color layers...

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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

Optical sound!

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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

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...

A series of cameo portraits of the filmmaker's friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature.

PEARL DIVER is about the frustration of communication between two women who try to tell each other "I love you" underwater making humorous a very wet...

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

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

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...

A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from...

A montage of film clips and stills calling all lesbians to come out and celebrate who they are. In a trilogy of experimental documentaries, director...