Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

Barbara Hammer's first film.

What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A secret weapon known as Bob Hawk. As a...

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

In Stone Circles, Hammer really leaves ‘nation’ as well as ‘era’ and creates a film poem on the prehistoric stone cultures of...

Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with...

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

1968/69, transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 5:19 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

Made with Barbara Klutinis. Shot with an underwater camera exploring the swimming pools of the Hearst Castle, California.

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

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

Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women dive without breathing apparatus, to...

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

In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the Provincetown Community Compact in...

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,...

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

A minute-long, partly animated colour video that is a humorous plea for good sex, safely prophylactic though it may be.

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

B&W and color; silent.