Movies

Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking. Barbara Hammer, 70 years old,...

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

Barbara Hammer's first and only multi-channel video installation, that tackles deeply personal subjects of her life.

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

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,...

Film by Barbara Hammer.

An experimental film with lesbian themes

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...

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

A tape by Barbara Hammer.

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

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...

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

"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...

Regarding this film and Cleansed: "These are two of the first films Hammer ever made and two of the last films she made while married to a man. Never...

"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...

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