Barbara Hammer Filmes

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the...

A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.

A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and exhibitionism; a baroque fugue of identity chanting growing from...

"I picked up Stan and Jane Brakhage at the airport and drove them to San Francisco State College where Stan spoke about his films to the student...

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,...

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending...

Barbara Hammer's first film.

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

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.

"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...

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 Stone Circles, Hammer really leaves ‘nation’ as well as ‘era’ and creates a film poem on the prehistoric stone cultures of...

A film investigating the nature of spectator perception in an unfamiliar environment. Manipulating the movement of the film direction on the screen...

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

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

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

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