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.

Beyond the Bolex
as SelfFilmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading...
Movie pageNitrate Kisses
as Interviewer / Narrator (voice)Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay...
Movie page!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
as SelfThrough intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this...
Movie pageA Month of Single Frames
as SelfIn 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one-month artist residency in the C Scape Duneshack...
Movie pageDouble Strength
as uncreditedFour stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance...
Movie pageMy Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities
as SelfThis video documentary centers on the questions of civil liberties and cultural differences in a...
Movie pageSuperdyke Meets Madame X
as uncreditedFrom the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾”...
Movie pageDiving Women of Jeju-do
as SelfJeju-do is the largest of Korean islands and lies between Korea and Japan. There, for hundreds...
Movie pageAudience
as SelfBarbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography....
Movie pageCarolee, Barbara and Gunvor
as uncreditedFrom 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor...
Movie pageResisting Paradise
as DirectorHammer’s 2003 film Resisting Paradise, which deals with the concept of art as a tool of...
Movie pageQueer Genius
as uncreditedQueer Genius is a cinematic exploration of four visionary queer artists breaking down barriers...
Movie pageA Horse Is Not a Metaphor
as SelfThe filmmaker, fighting ovarian cancer, stage 3, returns to her experimental roots, in a...
Movie pageVever (For Barbara)
as (voice)Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of...
Movie pageTender Fictions
as uncreditedChildhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young...
Movie page“X”
as uncreditedA profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and...
Movie pageDykes, Camera, Action!
as SelfThe film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes...
Movie pageGenerations
as uncreditedGenerations is a 30 minute 16mm film about mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal...
Movie pageMasculinity/Femininity
as SelfMasculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of...
Movie pageEvidentiary Bodies
as uncreditedWe, as human beings on a small globe, united by evolutionary structure and biological DNA have a...
Movie pageStress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles
as uncreditedFilmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."
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