Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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

An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites. Shot on witch's land in Northern...

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

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

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

Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended...

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

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

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone. Winner of...

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

Barbara Hammer's first film.

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...

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...

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

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...

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