Barbara Hammer Movies

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

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

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

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

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

"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...

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...

"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...

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

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

Barbara Hammer's first film.

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

A dramatic romantic comedy narrative featuring a pre-menopausal woman who tires to join the Hot Flashes.

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

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...

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

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