Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was born on May 15, 1939 in Hollywood, California. She was a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She made over 80 moving image works in a career that spanned 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema.
Dyketactics
as Woman Making LoveBorn in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself....
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Resisting Paradise
as DirectorHammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of...
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Beyond the Bolex
as SelfFilmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading...
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Superdyke Meets Madame X
as uncreditedFrom the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾”...
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!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
as SelfThrough intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this...
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Nitrate Kisses
as Interviewer / Narrator (voice)Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay...
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Dykes, Camera, Action!
as SelfThe film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes...
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A Month of Single Frames
as SelfIn 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack...
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Masculinity/Femininity
as SelfMasculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of...
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Double Strength
as uncreditedFour stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance...
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Vever (For Barbara)
as (voice)Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of...
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Diving Women of Jeju-do
as SelfJeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds...
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Tender Fictions
as uncreditedChildhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young...
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Audience
as SelfBarbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography....
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A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
as SelfThe filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a...
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My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
as SelfThis video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a...
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Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor
as uncreditedFrom 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor...
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Evidentiary Bodies
as uncreditedWe, as human beings on a small globe, united by evolutionary structure and biological DNA have a...
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Generations
as uncreditedGenerations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal...
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“X”
as uncreditedA profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and...
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Queer Genius
as uncreditedQueer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers...
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Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
as uncreditedFilmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."
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