Barbara Hammer

Born: 1939-05-15

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.


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Queer Genius

as uncredited
Released: 2019-06-25

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

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Nitrate Kisses

as Interviewer / Narrator (voice)
Released: 1992-09-12

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

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Resisting Paradise

as Director
Released: 2003-01-01

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

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“X”

as uncredited
Released: 1973-06-21

A profound and powerful experimental, personal film of one woman's despair, rage and...

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Audience

as Self
Released: 1982-01-01

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

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Tender Fictions

as uncredited
Released: 1995-03-15

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

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Double Strength

as uncredited
Released: 1978-01-01

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

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Dyketactics

as Woman Making Love
Released: 1974-01-01

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

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Masculinity/Femininity

as Self
Released: 2015-03-23

Masculinity/Femininity is an experimental film project interrogating normative notions of...

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Evidentiary Bodies

as uncredited
Released: 2018-02-26

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

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

as Self
Released: 2010-09-12

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

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Carolee, Barbara and Gunvor

as uncredited
Released: 2018-02-20

From 2015 to 2017, Lynne Sachs visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor...

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Diving Women of Jeju-do

as Self
Released: 2007-01-01

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

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Beyond the Bolex

as Self
Released: 2018-11-08

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

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Generations

as uncredited
Released: 2010-01-01

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

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A Month of Single Frames

as Self
Released: 2019-07-14

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

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A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

as Self
Released: 2009-02-10

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

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Superdyke Meets Madame X

as uncredited
Released: 1975-01-01

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

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Vever (For Barbara)

as (voice)
Released: 2023-10-12

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

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Pictures 4 Barbara

as Self
Released: 1981-01-01

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities

as Self
Released: 2001-01-01

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

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Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

as uncredited
Released: 1976-07-08

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

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Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand

as uncredited
Released: 2012-03-28

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