Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 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...

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