Barbara Hammer Movies

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing...

An experimental movie where the viewpoint starts in a placid pond high inland, and follows the flow of water down to the sea. The movie experiments...

Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit...

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

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

An experimental film with lesbian themes

color, silent, 8mm film

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

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

The filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a multilayered film of numerous chemotherapy sessions with...

Welcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of...

A series of cameo portraits of the filmmaker's friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature.

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

One of the first 3 16 mm films made by Barbara Hammer. The filmmaker changes from a damsel in gown and crown to a leather jacket motorcycle dyke.

Hammer used old x-ray footage, rearranged, colored and orchestrated through optical printing, in order to reveal hidden bodily movements and rhythms...

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

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

Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,...

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

Film by Barbara Hammer.