Barbara Hammer Movies

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

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

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...

In “Vital Signs” (1991), Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite. She tenderly cares for a human...

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

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

“Both NEW YORK LOFT and DOLL HOUSE convey a strong sense of resourcefulness, this ‘making something’ out of interiors, specifically...

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

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

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

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

B&W and color; silent.

Shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

"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...

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...

Optical sound!

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

“Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It” (1998) is a found porn flick: a threesome. Hammer excises the male part, retaining the two...

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...