Barbara Hammer Movies

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

From the platonic cave to post-punk, the tape traces the invisible and visible references to women who love women from prehistory to contemporary...

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

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,...

Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm...

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

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...

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased...

Using the sixth century B.C. lyricist's poetry, a group of women unwrap the papyrus gauze of the lesbian goddess and bring her to life. Made by...

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...

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

color, silent, 8mm film

"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...

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

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

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,...

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

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...

An autumnal celebration of colorful fall leaves, brooks and bathing, chanting circles and tree goddess rites. Shot on witch's land in Northern...