Barbara Hammer Movies

"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...

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

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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

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

Hammer used old x-ray footage, rearranged, colored and orchestrated through optical printing, in order to reveal hidden bodily movements and rhythms...

Combining perhaps the only footage from the first Women’s International Day march in San Francisco and rare footage of the second National...

Out in South Africa, a documentary about a country in the state of transition; specifically of lesbians and gays, black and white, Indian and Asian,...

"Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse. We see whimsical references to...

A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation where women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a...

A celebration and collage of lesbians, including footage of the Women's International Day march in SF and joyous dancing from the last night of the...

Optical sound!

B&W and color; silent.

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

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

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

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

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

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