Barbara Hammer

Barbara Forever

An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Ham...

My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

This video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a society beginn...

Film Hawk

What do filmmakers as disparate as Kevin Smith, Ed Burns, Rob Epstein, and Barbara Hammer have in common? A sec...

Dykes, Camera, Action!

The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the...

Nitrate Kisses

Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feat...

Beyond the Bolex

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technic...

!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documen...

Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-f...

Dyketactics

Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 19...

Diving Women of Jeju-do

Jeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds of years, women...

Tender Fictions

Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist undersco...

Vever (For Barbara)

Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage...

Women of Vision

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen we...

A Month of Single Frames

In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack which is run by the...

Queer Genius

Queer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers in their creativ...

Masculinity/Femininity

Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of gender, sexuality and...

Resisting Paradise

Hammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of political resistance, w...

Double Strength

Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendg...

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of n...

Audience

Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw...

“X”

A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque f...

The Female Closet

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the...

Pictures 4 Barbara

Film by Barbara Hammer.

Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

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

Generations

Generations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental film...

Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand

Evidentiary Bodies

We, as human beings on a small globe, united by evolutionary structure and biological DNA have a chance to come...

Superdyke Meets Madame X

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