Barbara Hammer Movies

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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

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 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...

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

‘Still Point’ serves as Barbara Hammer’s definitive reassessment of 70’s cultural feminism. She literally places side-by-side...

NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga...

An experimental film with lesbian themes

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...

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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

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

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...

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

In Tourist, Barbara Hammer depicts a trip to Europe: the flow of images is manipulated with a syncopated rhythm, to alter the perception of places...

A lesbian/feminist aesthetic proposing the connection between touch and sight to be the basis for a new cinema. The film explores the tactile child...

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

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

Barbara Hammer (then married and known as Barbara Ward) stakes a claim to immortality.