Barbara Hammer Movies

In “Vital Signs” (1991), Barbara Hammer demonstratively transforms the horror of death into its opposite. She tenderly cares for a human...

Transferred S8 mm film, 4:3, color, silent, 4:08 min, Edition of 7 + 2AP

On October 11, 2001, in Times Square, New York City, an ad hoc group of artists named Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War silently demonstrated for peace...

“Blue Film No. 6: Love Is Where You Find It” (1998) is a found porn flick: a threesome. Hammer excises the male part, retaining the two...

B&W and color; silent.

An investigation into what subway passengers are reading.

Excavation of Dr. James Sibley Watson

It shows a family where the son makes a wish to switch sizes with the father so that he can be the boss for a change. The father doesn't like this at...

1970, 25:27 min, color, silent, 8mm film on video.

Optical sound!

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...

"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the...

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

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

Animation of photos and paper cut outs from a hike at Machu Pichu in Peru.

One-point perspective visual path across the US beginning inside a linear accelerator or atom-smashing device and traveling to such high-energy...

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

In California a young woman artist/filmmaker is led by an older female artist through the small pine forests of Mendocino and the hot desert sands of...

Film by Barbara Hammer.

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